From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 03:35:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DEA137B401; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EF243F75; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:35:48 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 19kLdn-0007Za-00; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:35:35 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:35:35 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: David Schultz In-Reply-To: <20030806044351.GA3881@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: freebsd-hackers cc: Roderick van Domburg Subject: Re: Tuning HZ for semi-realtime applications X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:35:53 -0000 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Schultz wrote: > 100 Hz works just fine for > interactive jobs; humans can't tell the difference.[1] They can if they're using X :-) I gave Denim* a trial recently; it was unusable at 100Hz and fine at 1000. jan * gesture-recognition web design toy: http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim/ -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ "Roger Penrose can never be convinced that this sentence is true." (If he doesn't get the joke, you can at least prove that he owes you money.)