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Date:      Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:24:20 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: so much clock interrupts?!
Message-ID:  <200511260124.22384.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051125064503.GA707@bsd.trippelsdorf.de>
References:  <20051124013438.T8326@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20051124204359.GD30073@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051125064503.GA707@bsd.trippelsdorf.de>

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On Friday 25 November 2005 06:45, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
>   2000 interrupts per second per core for the timer is a
> ridiculous high number and I reduce it simply for aesthetic reasons.
> This may be a religious issue and everyone should use what he or she
> seems fitting.

If you think in a wider perspective, and consider the number of cpu cycles per 
interrupt on historical and embedded cpus, 2000 Hz is pretty conservative. 



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