low HZ value causes "Time Warp Bug" (re: this Puny Pentium2suddenly became 45% slower!)

[Chuck Swiger]

Bruce Evans wrote:
[ ... ]
> The importance of scheduling is shown by the number of users who notice
> when it is broken: it is very small.

Aren't blocking system calls wonderful?  I suspect that problems with the 
scheduler don't matter nearly as much when you've often only got a handful of 
tasks which are runnable to choose from.

If one considers problem domains requiring multitasking between non-blocking 
tasks (realtime games seem to be a good example), you'd probably find 
scheduling much more important there...

-- 
-Chuck