Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 1999 20:37:16 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Overscheduling DOES happen with high web server load. |
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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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