On 2021-05-23 at 23:55, Richard Hector wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I see messages like this frequently for a day or two after rebooting
> a particularly slow old machine (Atom-based HP thin client, running
> as an OpenVPN endpoint):
> 
> May 23 05:36:37 ovpn kernel: [14268.392418] perf: interrupt took too
> long (4020 > 3996), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to
> 49750

I get this same behavior, except that my machine is not in any way slow
(except for intermittent issues with the secondary SATA controller on
the motherboard).

> Would it be a good idea to set this value at boot time, rather than
> waiting for it to auto-adjust down till it settles?

I wouldn't think so; if nothing else, it doesn't always seem to settle
out to the same value every time.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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