Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ? | Date | 16 Apr 2002 17:22:28 -0700 |
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Followup to: <E16xTTd-0008Va-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > I seem to recall from theory that the 100HZ is human dependent. Any > > higher and you would begin to notice delays from you input until > > whatever program you're talking to responds. > > Ultimately its because Linus pulled that number out of a hat about ten years > ago. For some workloads 1KHz is much better, for others like giant number > crunching people actually drop it down to about 5.. >
Hardly so. 100 Hz was standard on most commercial Unices around the time the first Linux was done...
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