Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-07-10T21:33:11Z

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But on the other hand, increasing HZ has perf/latency benefits, yes? Have
> > these been quantified?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. And I'd regard any such claims with some
> scepticism.

The most obvious one is the reduced latency of select/poll timeouts.

-ben
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