Re: Can and should the kernel HZ value be changed?

Bill Currie (bill@taniwha.tssc.co.nz)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 12:27:01 +1300

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> This shouldnt be true for CONFIG_I386 or something. I agree for
> current desktop systems like K6/>=200 and other compareable
> processors. This should maybe be bound to the CPU selection and/or
> seperatly configurable.

I think I would prefer it to be configurable, with the default either at
100 or based on CPU. I don't think my poor old 386dx33 could cope with,
say, HZ=1024, though my 486 might be able to cope with something
reasonable.

Bill

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