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SubjectRe: [ckpatch][15/29] hz-no_default_250.patch
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On Monday 19 June 2006 21:52, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Yes I stored a family of these values and 864 was ~ the optimum for a high
> >value for desktops and ~84 for a low value but were unpopular for not
> > being
>
> 82 IIRC.

Ah yes here it is

HZ ticks/jiffie 1 second error (ppm)
---------------------------------------------------
82 14551 1.000000152 0.2
96 12429 1.000001829 1.8
209 5709 0.999999314 -0.7
363 3287 0.999999314 -0.7
519 2299 0.999999314 -0.7
864 1381 1.000001829 1.8

>
> >something decimally familiar. Also lots of code kind of broke with values
> >below 100 in the kernel.
>
> Ought to be fixed. Just like the code which assumed 100 Hz and broke during
> the initial switch to 1000, before we went back again to 250. :p

No impetus to fix them I guess since there is no way to configure the kernel
for sub 100 HZ configs without hacking it.

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