On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote:
Is there any study on the time that context switching really takes... I mean, yes... it sounds that setting HZ to 4000 seems too heavy for the system... but also moving from 100 to 1000 was discussed years ago, and now it seems to be the standard...
As processor speeds get higher and higher, one would expect that the HZ could be raised accordingly.
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