Re: AW: AW: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

Zeugswetter Andreas SB  <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:
>> HPUX has usleep, but the man page says
>> 
>> The usleep() function is included for its historical usage. The
>> setitimer() function is preferred over this function.

> I doubt that setitimer has microsecond precision on HPUX.

Well, if you insist on beating this into the ground:

$ cat timetest.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{       int i;       int delay;
       delay = atoi(argv[1]);
       for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++)               usleep(delay);
       return 0;
}
$ gcc -O -Wall timetest.c
$ time ./a.out 1

real    0m20.02s
user    0m0.04s
sys     0m0.09s
$ time ./a.out 1000

real    0m20.04s
user    0m0.04s
sys     0m0.09s
$ time ./a.out 10000

real    0m20.01s
user    0m0.03s
sys     0m0.08s
$ time ./a.out 20000

real    0m30.03s
user    0m0.04s
sys     0m0.09s
$
$ cat timetest2.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

typedef void (*pqsigfunc) (int);

pqsigfunc
pqsignal(int signo, pqsigfunc func)
{struct sigaction act,            oact;
act.sa_handler = func;sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);act.sa_flags = 0;if (signo != SIGALRM)    act.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;if
(sigaction(signo,&act, &oact) < 0)    return SIG_ERR;return oact.sa_handler;
 
}

void
catch_alarm(int sig)
{
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{int i;struct itimerval iv;int delay;
delay = atoi(argv[1]);
pqsignal(SIGALRM, catch_alarm);
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++){    iv.it_value.tv_sec = 0;    iv.it_value.tv_usec = delay;    iv.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
iv.it_interval.tv_usec= 0;    setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &iv, NULL);    pause();}
 
return 0;
}
$ gcc -O -Wall timetest2.c
$ time ./a.out 1

real    0m20.04s
user    0m0.01s
sys     0m0.05s
$ time ./a.out 1000

real    0m20.02s
user    0m0.01s
sys     0m0.06s
$ time ./a.out 10000

real    0m20.01s
user    0m0.01s
sys     0m0.05s
$ time ./a.out 20000

real    0m30.01s
user    0m0.01s
sys     0m0.06s
$

The usleep man page implies that usleep is actually implemented as a
setitimer call, which would explain the interchangeable results.  In
any case, neither one is useful for timing sub-clock-tick intervals;
in fact they're worse than select().

Anyone else want to try these examples on other platforms?
        regards, tom lane