HEADSUP: HZ=1000 by default on i386

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Thu Nov 4 00:48:11 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> We increasingly need better granularity in our sleep/wakeup calls and
> things like device polling and trafic shaping needs higher granularity
> in particular.

are you trying to put the blame on me ?  :)

cheers
luigi

> So pending any really good arguments to the contrary I plan to increase
> HZ to 1000 on i386 this weekend.
> 
> You can still define any HZ value you like in your kernel config file
> or even set it from the loader.
> 
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