Re: kernel 2.6 speed

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:03 -0400, Florin Malita wrote:
>
> > the x86 timer interrupt
> > frequency has increased from 100Hz to 1KHz (it's about to be lowered
> > to 250Hz)
>
> This is by no means a done deal.  So far no one has posted ANY evidence
> that dropping HZ to 250 helps (except one result on a atypically large
> system), and there's plenty of evidence that it doesn't.
If nothing else it does seem to make media applications unhappy under 
some loads.
I personally think 1k should stay the default and let people with 
special needs use the other. Nice to select at boot time, people who 
need accuracy above all could use 866 (or whatever tick rate near that 
was the lowest error).
--
   -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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