Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?

Alan Cox
2002-04-16T13:40:55Z

> I seem to recall from theory that the 100HZ is human dependent. Any
> higher and you would begin to notice delays from you input until
> whatever program you're talking to responds.

Ultimately its because Linus pulled that number out of a hat about ten years
ago. For some workloads 1KHz is much better, for others like giant number
crunching people actually drop it down to about 5..