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Date:      Thu, 05 Sep 2002 07:02:07 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 elan-mmcr.c 
Message-ID:  <13904.1031202127@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:43:49 MDT." <20020904.184349.68159448.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20020904.184349.68159448.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <200209041952.g84JqHZG022386@freefall.freebsd.org>
>            Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>:   The downside is that HZ=100 is not enough, 150 or more recommended,
>:   I use 250 myself.
>
>Why is that the case?  It seems kinda counter intuitive to me...

The counter is 16 bits running at (33.333 MHz / 4) so it rolls over

	(3333333 / 4) / 65536 = 127 times a second.

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