Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:58:58 +0100 | From | Paul Slootman <> | Subject | Re: Can and should the kernel HZ value be changed? |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990106204608.31487A-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> you write: >On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Egil Kvaleberg wrote: > >> Pretty basal stuff, really: The more often you can switch context, the >> quicker the response will be for any given process residing down on the ready >> list somewhere. [...] > >_no_. When it's needed, we already context switch with arbitrary frequency >(up to 360 thousand times per second on my box). Eg. when you hit a key in >pine (running on the same box) to write the reply mail, the 'keypress >event' gets to the application much much faster than 10 msec ...
Only if there are no cpu-bound processes running, which don't relenquish their time slot voluntarily.
Paul Slootman -- home: paul@wurtel.demon.nl | work: paul@murphy.nl | debian: paul@debian.org http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
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