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Subject: Re: HEADSUP:  HZ=1000 by default on i386
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> We increasingly need better granularity in our sleep/wakeup calls and
> things like device polling and trafic shaping needs higher granularity
> in particular.
> 
> So pending any really good arguments to the contrary I plan to increase
> HZ to 1000 on i386 this weekend.
> 
> You can still define any HZ value you like in your kernel config file
> or even set it from the loader.
> 

Sounds like a good plan.

Scott