Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 12:01:19 EST


Użytkownik Benjamin LaHaise napisał:
> 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.

Which you can actually see if running x11perf or simple ico.

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