Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:42:51 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible |
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:38:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > OK, I'll grant that. Why is this useful?
Think video playback, where you want to queue the frame to be played as close to the correct 1/60s time as possible. With HZ=100, the code will frequently wake up much too late.
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