Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:30:26 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <87sin2o6gt.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <713f4189-5ffe-492d-9c7d-447bb4b4928a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ff5cf27ef3d5b31f034d3b72bdc27a41"; logging-data="5647"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+PB8+u1YZ1j/rPcuLtRUe4" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2PRMORT0Z/RbAusAjz8bXxrxVLM= sha1:uBSkiwQzTm16pJ9iOXj3DpIba2o= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73359 crow : > I'm writing some scripts with python, and I found sometimes, when I > try to use time.sleep(1) to sleep 1 sec, it would actually sleep for 9 > secs or even longer. > > [...] > > So, my question: under what kind of condition, time.sleep would > suspend longer time than expected? That could happen if your computer were extremely busy. Otherwise, I'd say you are mistaken in your analysis, or you are running a broken virtual machine. Marko