On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:24 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>>> "My expectation is if we want to beat the competition, we'll want > >>>> the ability to go *under* 100Hz." > >>> > >>> What does Windows do here? > >> > >> windows xp base rate is 100Hz... but multimedia apps can ask for almost > > > > 83Hz > > Well, Windoes 98 (vmmon) shows very different ones: Wow. Windows has been doing this since *98*? So that's what Paul meant by "the stupidity of a fixed HZ, which is so early '90s that its embarrassing". Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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