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Subject: #define HZ 1024 -- negative effects?
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Are there any negative effects of editing include/asm/param.h to change 
HZ from 100 to 1024? Or any other number? This has been suggested as a 
way to improve the responsiveness of the GUI on a Linux system. Does it 
throw off anything else, like serial port timing, etc.?

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