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Date:      Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:59:31 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: so much clock interrupts?!
Message-ID:  <20051124195930.GA19106@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051124140503.A75939@chylonia.3miasto.net>
References:  <20051124013438.T8326@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20051124023928.GA13075@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051124140503.A75939@chylonia.3miasto.net>

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>      540      534   99                                   pdwak  2000 
> >>      cpu0:
> >>      time
> >>                                                    16825 pdpgs  2000 
> >>                                                    cpu1:
> >>                                                    time
> >>
> >>
> >>on FreeBSD 5.3 live CD i have 100 not 2000 times per second
> >>
> >>isn't it too much?!
> >
> >No, it's just a consequence of HZ=1000 instead of HZ=100.  I've
> 
> 
> so why 2000 not 1000?
> 
> 2000 on each processor!

Technical reasons..anyway, 2000 might look like a large number to you,
but it's really not unless you're on a very slow machine (like a 486).

Kris


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