so much clock interrupts?!

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>      540      534   99                                   pdwak  2000 
> >>      cpu0:
> >>      time
> >>                                                    16825 pdpgs  2000 
> >>                                                    cpu1:
> >>                                                    time
> >>
> >>
> >>on FreeBSD 5.3 live CD i have 100 not 2000 times per second
> >>
> >>isn't it too much?!
> >
> >No, it's just a consequence of HZ=1000 instead of HZ=100.  I've
> 
> 
> so why 2000 not 1000?
> 
> 2000 on each processor!

Technical reasons..anyway, 2000 might look like a large number to you,
but it's really not unless you're on a very slow machine (like a 486).

Kris

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