Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 1999 05:19:31 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: Can and should the kernel HZ value be changed? |
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Egil Kvaleberg wrote:
> The current HZ value of 100 is definitely archaic, best suitable for a > 386SX at 16MHz. The performance potential of increasing HZ with respect to > realtime and interactivite responsiveness is so huge, it simply cannot be > overlooked.
could you elaborate why it makes a difference? what part of the kernel do you think causes the speedup?
-- mingo
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