Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:31:29 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: default HZ value in 5.2.1 Message-ID: <200407091231.29346.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <014701c465ce$4e6a8a90$037ba8c0@gnome.co.uk> References: <014701c465ce$4e6a8a90$037ba8c0@gnome.co.uk>
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On Friday 2004-07-09 11:03 am, Chris Stenton wrote:
> Any reason why the default value for HZ is still set at 100? Would not
> 1000 be better for finer granularity?
Setting HZ=1000 absolutely destroyed my Alpha's throughput:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/2003-April/000142.html
Yes, that's a non-x86 machine and an older, slower one to boot, but I
thought I'd present it as an example of a system that would really suffer
from that proposed change.
--
Kirk Strauser
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