Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:31:20 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: #define HZ 1024 -- negative effects? |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I have not tried it, but I would think that setting HZ to 1024 > should make a big improvement in responsiveness. > > Currently, the time slice allocated to a standard Linux > process is 5*HZ, or 50ms when HZ is 100. That means that you > will notice keystrokes being echoed slowly in X when you have > just one or two running processes,
Rubbish. Whenever a higher-priority thread than the current thread becomes runnable the current thread will get preempted, regardless of whether its timeslices is over or not.
And please, DO try things before proposing a radical change to the kernel ;)
regards,
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