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SubjectRe: Overscheduling DOES happen with high web server load.
davem@redhat.com writes:
> I had considered the issue of using a larger HZ value on UltraSparc,
> but:
[...]
> 2) The desire to run as many existing 32-bit Sparc binaries as
> possible without recompilation precluded things a bit

Hm. This reminds me of a little flamewar a while back, where Linus
kept repeating that kernel-HZ != user-HZ. So is there any reason why
you can't leave the value of HZ as seen by user space the same, but
make the timer frequency higher?

Regards,

Richard....

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