On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:30 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Look back in the thread. It made kernel compiles about 5% faster on a > fairly large box. I think the SGI people did it originally because it > caused them even larger problems. >
Right, I saw those, but you don't expect to change the default HZ based on that one test, do you? How about some numbers for a regular desktop? > I'm not saying their aren't arguments on both sides ... there are. I > just agree with you there's a lot of hand-waving going on ... but > probably not agreeing as to who it's coming from ;-) > Well, I think the burden of proof is on those who are proposing radical changes, IOW I don't think I should be required to produce any numbers to justify the status quo. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
