mention how HZ affects us

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.\" $NetBSD: nanosleep.2,v 1.14 2013/12/25 00:58:50 dholland Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: nanosleep.2,v 1.15 2014/02/01 22:42:45 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" @(#)sleep.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
.Dd October 1, 2012
.Dd February 1, 2014
.Dt NANOSLEEP 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Fn clock_nanosleep
function conforms to
.St -p1003.1j-2000 .
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nx
kernel is not tickless, so the maximum sleep resolution is determined
by the value of
.Dv HZ
which is by default
.Dv 100
in most architectures.
This means that a request to sleep for less than
.Dv 10ms
(1 / HZ seconds), is rounded up to that.