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 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105251043010.7432-100000@haydn.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
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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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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