decreasing #define HZ in the linux kernel for CPU/memory bound apps ?

Cabaniols, Sebastien Sebastien.Cabaniols at Compaq.com
Tue Apr 16 03:57:18 PDT 2002


Hi beowulfs!

Would it be interesting to decrease the #define HZ in the linux kernel
for CPU/Memory bound computationnal farms  ?
(I just posted the same question to lkml)

I mean we very often have only one running process eating 99% of 
the CPU, but we (in fact I) don't know if we loose time doing context
switches ....

Did anyone experiment on that ?

Thanks in advance






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