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Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:54:14 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        mdean <mdean@best.com>
Cc:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A world of unexplored pain.
Message-ID:  <343AE7C6.592990BB@whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.SGI.3.95.971006232803.27801A-100000@shellx.best.com>

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mdean wrote:
[...]

>  were running at an interrupt frequency of 10000 Hz
> (gee wiz ma I only want 1000hz)?  So what did you see in the way of lost
> tick statistics?
[...]

> 
> > Things have grown a lot since then.
> 
> Grown to what?

well for a start in FreeBSD the system provides a way of raising 
the hardware clockrate transparently on the fly to do this sort 
of thing the PCAUDIO device routinelyu raises the clockrate to 
16000 Hz.



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