Bug#461487: linux-image-2.6-amd64: HZ is set to 250 (for contextswitches) - please consider using 100Hz as 250Hz affects timekeeping (with NTPd) badly
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 06:31:03PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>
> > Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
> > Version: 2.6.22+11
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > HZ is set to 250 (for contextswitches) - please consider using 100Hz as
> > 250Hz affects timekeeping (with NTPd) badly see thread at:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.time.ntp/browse_thread/thread/6c4645ac82c1c013
>
> quite a lot happened since in the timer code,
> thanks to tickless kernels, test 2.6.24-rc8 trunk builds
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel
Folkert, did you test NTPD with more recent kernels?
Cheers,
Moritz
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