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Subject: Re: low HZ value causes "Time Warp Bug" (re: this Puny Pentium2
 suddenly became 45% slower!)
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> > It seems this bug happens when the HZ value goes below 16
> > (either by compiling 'options HZ=' in kernel or setting
> > sysctl 'kern.hz=' in /boot/loader.conf).  The computed
> > 'ticks' value becomes too large for 2-byte int producing
> > crazy overflowed numbers elsewhere.
> 
> 16 is pretty low..
> Then again it would be nice if it warned you or something similar when you 
> tried it :)

Heh, I got HZ set to 20 while it does
buildworld (~9 hours) and portupgrade overnight. 
The idea is "less slicing and more doing". ;)


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