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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Mark Mielke wrote: > Increasing the HZ can only improve responsiveness, however, there is a > cost (mentioned by others). The cost is that the scheduler is executed > more often per second. If the scheduler does the same amount of work > per tick, but there are more ticks per second, the scheduler does more > work overall, and the CPU is free for use by the processes less. Why are you discussing Linux 1.2 ? Linux is not running the scheduler each cpu tick and hasn't done this for years. regards, Rik -- http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2002/ "You're one of those condescending OLS attendants" "Here's a nickle kid. Go buy yourself a real t-shirt" http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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