Alpha is 1024. It is architecture dependent. Greater value of HZ greater time spent servicing timer interrupt. Response may get better, but throughput will decrease. (and vice versa) So a balance has to be found. Regards, Sourav --- nazim khan <naz_taurus@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any restriction in linux kernel that timer > should always run at 10ms. > I see HZ hardcoded to 100 (100 ticks per seconds > which means 1 tick is 10 ms). > > If I have to change it to some other value (5ms or > 20ms) what all I have to take care aparty from > configuring hardware timer counter. > > - TIA > Taurus > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage > http://sports.yahoo.com/ > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
