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Subject: Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
From: Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
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On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 15:38, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:35:19PM +0200, Terje Eggestad wrote:
> > I seem to recall from theory that the 100HZ is human dependent. Any
> > higher and you would begin to notice delays from you input until
> > whatever program you're talking to responds. 
> 
> I suspect by "higher" you mean "each tick takes up more of a second".
> 
> As in, if the HZ is *less* than 100HZ, you would notice delays when
> typing, or similar.
> 

Quote right, my typo.

> 
> mark
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