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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 10:41:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        patrick@pine.nl
Cc:        Momma Bear Trish <trish@listmistress.org>, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dummynet issues
Message-ID:  <200105090841.KAA25737@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <20010509094151.E15890@pine.nl> from Patrick Oonk at "May 9, 2001 09:41:51 am"

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> What is HZ= supposed to do? I can't find it in LINT.

it sets the resolution of the clock interrupt. Historically HZ=100
but in 20 years machines have become a bit faster (by 2+ orders of
magnitude, roughly) so we can well afford HZ=1000 or higher these
days...

	cheers
	luigi

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