Re: HZ=1024 for CPU >= 586?

Christoph Lameter (christoph@lameter.com)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:14:18 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Erik Corry wrote:

> Yes, but above the refresh rate of your monitor, so how come you can
> see it?

AFAIK linux assignes multiple timeslices to processes. If a process runs
for 20 timeslices that is already 0.2 sec. Have multiple of those and
things lag badly.

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