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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:14:53 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Olaf Fraczyk <olaf@navi.pl>
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Subject: Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:47:48AM +0200, Olaf Fraczyk wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know why exactly this value was choosen.
> Is it safe to change it to eg. 1024? Will it break anything?
> What else should I change to get it working:
> CLOCKS_PER_SEC?
> Please CC me.
> Regards,
> Olaf Fraczyk

I tried a few times running with HZ == 1024 for some testing (or I guess
just to see what happened). I didn't see any problems, even without the
obscure CLOCKS_PER_SEC ELF business.


Cheers,
Bill
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