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Subject: Re: rtc wants more hz!
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jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> writes:

> I found this old thread on it:   
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026160.html
> 
> If I raise the hz option in my kernel config will it adversely affect  
> anything else like network performance?

That depends on a lot of things, including your hardware and your
typical workload.  It could well *improve* your system performance.  
Try it and see.  [My set-of-the-pants guess is that it will have only
a minimal effect, but I may well be wrong.]

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/