From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 18:43:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1E237B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 18:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A3B676ACBC; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:13:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:13:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Daniel Sing Ming Wong Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What would be the effect of change tick to 10us ? Message-ID: <20010525111322.I26315@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from s2209866@cse.unsw.EDU.AU on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:43:53AM +1000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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