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SubjectRe: HZ, preferably as small as possible
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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