Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:40:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Nigel Gamble <> | Subject | Re: #define HZ 1024 -- negative effects? |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Are there any negative effects of editing include/asm/param.h to change > HZ from 100 to 1024? Or any other number? This has been suggested as a > way to improve the responsiveness of the GUI on a Linux system. Does it > throw off anything else, like serial port timing, etc.?
Why not just run the X server at a realtime priority? Then it will get to respond to existing events, such as keyboard and mouse input, promptly without creating lots of superfluous extra clock interrupts. I think you will find this is a better solution.
Nigel Gamble nigel@nrg.org Mountain View, CA, USA. http://www.nrg.org/
MontaVista Software nigel@mvista.com
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