> 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

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