Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ? | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:58:33 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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.. - 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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