> The forthcoming kernel will be introducing a rather visible (and > potentially important) change. Firstly, it will provide an option to > select the default timer frequency. Secondly, the default frequency > will now be 250HZ. For the record, the value used to be 100HZ and was > rather drastically changed to 1000HZ for 2.6. It will now be possible > to choose a HZ value of either 100, 250 or 1000. >
Although a non-issue to servers(?), the change affects sleep call latencies. <http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~ed/misc/nanosleep/> a linux 2.6 @ 100hz is the same as netbsd @ 100hz --ed Eduardo Tongson -- [email protected] mailing list
