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Subject: Re: so much clock interrupts?!
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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.