On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, moreau francis wrote: > A patch is being integrated into the kernel in order to be able to tune HZ > value while configuring the kernel. The values can be 100, 250, 1000 and > default value has been moved to 250. The patch is for i386 arch. > > Why not doing the same on mips arch ? Well, you are welcomed to submit a patch. Except our situation a bit more complicated as some platforms these values and may need something like 128, 256 or 1024 instead. This should be properly taken care of. > BTW why the default value on mips is 1000 ? Perhaps we have too much processing power by default. Maciej