Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 08:58:33 EST


> 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.

Ultimately its because Linus pulled that number out of a hat about ten years
ago. For some workloads 1KHz is much better, for others like giant number
crunching people actually drop it down to about 5..
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