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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:37:52 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: No 100 HZ timer !
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:36:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It's also all interrupts, not only syscalls, and also context switch if you
> > want to be accurate.
> 
> We dont need to be that accurate. Our sample rate is currently so low the
> data is worthless anyway

Just without checking on context switch you would lose the information of per pid
system/user/total that is currently collected completely.

-Andi
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