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From: Jason Stone <freebsd-performance@dfmm.org>
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Subject: Re: thread switching time?
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> I am using FreeBSD 7 and would like to decrease the time of switching 
> between threads. This time seems to be 1ms and it is impossible to make 
> lower delays inside a thread, at least using nanosleep().
>
> Is it possible to decrease this time to 1us?

Increase HZ, with the usual caveats about trading off latency for 
overhead?


  -Jason

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