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Bug#461487: marked as done (linux-image-2.6-amd64: HZ is set to 250 (for contextswitches) - please consider using 100Hz as 250Hz affects timekeeping (with NTPd) badly)

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regarding linux-image-2.6-amd64: HZ is set to 250 (for contextswitches) - please consider using 100Hz as 250Hz affects timekeeping (with NTPd) badly
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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

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23pps-nodeb.pps-nodeb (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64    2.6.22-6   Linux 2.6.22 image on AMD64

linux-image-2.6-amd64 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:18:48PM +0100, 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?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have the hardware (scope?) and such to verify
> this. I was reporting it as a 'bug' from what I read on the linux-pps
> mailinglist (which talks about the pulse-per-second infrastructure
> patch, which is for connecting an atomic clock or gps with pps
> signal).

I'm closing the bug. The warning on the PPS patch is quite old and since
the timekeeping code is nowadays the standard this is mostly definitely
fixed in the PPS patch meanwhile.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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