Re: default HZ value in 5.2.1

From: Kirk Strauser <kirk_at_strauser.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:31:29 -0500
On Friday 2004-07-09 11:03 am, Chris Stenton wrote:

> Any reason why the default value for HZ is still set at 100?  Would not
> 1000 be better for finer granularity?

Setting HZ=1000 absolutely destroyed my Alpha's throughput:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/2003-April/000142.html

Yes, that's a non-x86 machine and an older, slower one to boot, but I 
thought I'd present it as an example of a system that would really suffer 
from that proposed change.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
Received on Fri Jul 09 2004 - 15:31:35 UTC

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