On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> I theory, it should be pretty safe to change the default value of HZ
> except many userspace programs probably 100 as an assumption and may
> give funny results.
This is exactly what I meant. As long as HZ is a macro there is not much
to do about it.
> People do increase HZ to much higher values (10000?) to be better
> control over some kernel features such as CBQ.
As long as the CPU can handle that many timer interrupts per second
that's OK. But you have to recompile all parts of userland that depend on
HZ.
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