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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:38:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OK, I'll grant that.  Why is this useful?

Think video playback, where you want to queue the frame to be played as 
close to the correct 1/60s time as possible.  With HZ=100, the code will 
frequently wake up much too late.

		-ben
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