[ComputerGuru]

Sleep is noisy.

When you do sleep, depending on the hardware, the OS, the configuration, the kernel flags, etc. the minimum you actually get is around 38.

But that varies.

[tptacek]

Wait, what? If I call sleep(1), you're saying it's going to sleep for THIRTY EIGHT SECONDS?

People, it's right there in the man pages.

Are you maybe thinking about WinAPI's Sleep? That's ms-denominated. It would make sense that attempting to sleep for 1 millisecond wouldn't work, and would build in the time for the scheduler and the timeslices for every other process. We're talking about OpenSSL and POSIX sleep(3).

[ComputerGuru]

My apologies. Yes, I do mean MS - I started off doing *nix development, but now am doing Win32 programming 18 hours a day.

Please discard my above comment, everyone.