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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:50:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible
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Hi,

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Stevie O wrote:
> Why must HZ be the same as 'interrupts per second'?

s/interrupts/scheduler calls/

But what exactly does this question mean to be? I don't fully understand. 
We define HZ to have an interval for the calls of the scheduler. That's 
why it is the number of scheduler calls per second, because that's what it 
was invented to be.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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