Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 18:23:19 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 03:22:30, Frank Phillips wrote: >When my program is running on FICS under Linux and accessing the EGTBs >(performing a lot of disk activity), it seems to forget to look at the input >from the server for long periods of time, so that the opponent's clock goes >negative. When not accessing the EGTBs (or running under Windows) everything is >fine. you probably get the wrong time from the system. Instead of the real time used by a process you probably get the process system time which is very little as all times goes to the FILE-OS or whatever. In short ask the REAL clock instead of the system time your application is needed! >(Frustrating, since I may have to move to Linux if MS decide next that your >first born is part of the licence fee for using their sotware, in interests of >the consumer and to protect freedom and democracy against the evil threat of >open source software of course.). > >Any help appreciated. > >Frank
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