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Date:      Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:39:28 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: so much clock interrupts?!
Message-ID:  <20051124023928.GA13075@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051124013438.T8326@chylonia.3miasto.net>
References:  <20051124013438.T8326@chylonia.3miasto.net>

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 01:35:41AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> that's what i see in systat with FreeBSD 6.0/i386-SMP
>=20
>=20
>       540      534   99                                   pdwak  2000 cpu=
0:=20
>       time
>                                                     16825 pdpgs  2000 cpu=
1:=20
>                                                     time
>=20
>=20
> on FreeBSD 5.3 live CD i have 100 not 2000 times per second
>=20
> isn't it too much?!

No, it's just a consequence of HZ=3D1000 instead of HZ=3D100.  I've
measured this carefully and I can't see it causing a penalty on my
workloads.  It apparently gives a benefit on machines that do a lot of
network I/O.

Kris

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