Sorry- this was meant to be sent to directly Con Kolivas- Apparently, I messed 
up and it somehow appeared on the expert list, addressed to myself- still 
can't figure that one out.

Robert C.


On Thursday 26 June 2003 19:51, you wrote:
> Con,
> Tried the new june23 full patch, but couldn't get past make modules. I then
> edited my .config file some, and did the base patch, plus the performance
> patches, and supermount, all individually, and that worked out great. Must
> have been some conflict caused by the old .config.
>
> Anyway, my question is about setting the Variable Hz- do you mean when I do
> xconfig, I should change the setting in General setup to a higher value,
> and see if performance is improved? Here's my present value, that
> apparently is the default. Or, is that what we're even talking about? I'm
> not sure I understand this, due to lack of knowledge.
>
> # General setup
> #
> CONFIG_HZ=200
>
> On your webpage I read:
>
> Is 1000Hz more overhead than 100Hz? Yes definitely, but not a great deal.
> If you change the Hz, use a multiple of 100. There really is no point going
> above 1000 Hz.
>
> I assume this means that if I'm correct and you are referring to that line
> in xconfig, I can experiment. Am I also correct in that I need your patch
> in order to experiment with this value? Or, am I totally misunderstanding
> all of the above, and the ck3 patches already set some other value to
> 1000Mhz that I'm confusing with the line in the kernel .config file?
>
> Thanks for the great patches- I'm now using 2.4.21 with CK patches
> exclusively on MDK 9.1- nothing works better for my desktop box.
>
> Best regards,
> Robert Crawford


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