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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 11:13:22 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Daniel Sing Ming Wong <s2209866@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What would be the effect of change tick to 10us ?
Message-ID:  <20010525111322.I26315@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105251043010.7432-100000@haydn.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU>; from s2209866@cse.unsw.EDU.AU on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:43:53AM %2B1000
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On Friday, 25 May 2001 at 10:43:53 +1000, Daniel Sing Ming Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What happens if I change a tick from 10ms to 10us ??

Your machine would spend 100% CPU time handling clock interrupts, and
not keep up.  This would appear as a hang.

Greg
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