so much clock interrupts?!

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Nov 25 00:15:35 GMT 2005


On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:09:08AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>>No, it's just a consequence of HZ=1000 instead of HZ=100.  I've
> >>
> >>
> >>so why 2000 not 1000?
> >>
> >>2000 on each processor!
> >
> >Technical reasons..anyway, 2000 might look like a large number to you,
> >but it's really not unless you're on a very slow machine (like a 486).
> 
> i'm asking why it's 2000, not 1000.

I don't remember off-hand.  It should be apparent if you look at the
code.

Kris
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