Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?

From: David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 12:52:27 EST


>>>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:18:18 -0700 (PDT), Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> said:

  Davide> i still have pieces of paper on my desk about tests done on
  Davide> my dual piii where by hacking HZ to 1000 the kernel build
  Davide> time went from an average of 2min:30sec to an average
  Davide> 2min:43sec. that is pretty close to 10%

Did you keep the timeslice roughly constant?

        --david
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