Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

From: Stevie O (oliver@klozoff.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 19:36:04 EST

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At <time> <date>, <user> [<email>] wrote:
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A lot of people are talking about how HZ needs to be a constant, etc.

I don't do much kernel hacking, so allow me to post a query that would (probably) better belong on #kernelnewbies if I wasn't so damn lazy ;) --

Why must HZ be the same as 'interrupts per second'?

-- Stevie-O

Real programmers link their executables by hand.

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