> I think you didn't describe the tradeoff correctly. The amount of time a
> process gets are independent of HZ. HZ just defines its granularity.
>
> Let me describe this with a picture, where we have two runnable processes A
> and B: . . . . . . . .
> HZ = 100: AAAAAAAABBBBBBBBAAAAAAAABBBBBBBB
> HZ = 400: AABBAABBAABBAABBAABBAABBAABBAABB
Sorry, but default timeslice is defined as something relative to HZ
(and it is in jiffies), so no matter how you change HZ, timeslices are
constant (in seconds).
Pavel
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