I change it regulary. I didn't experienced any problems - only
lockups on slow systems which can't handle it.
There should be no problem regarding the change.
devik
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Alexey Talikov wrote:
I can't answer you completely ( this question for kernel maintainers ) :(
But as I
IMHO :)
HZ defines the heart beat of the Linux system in terms of 'jiffies'.
Increasing HZ will increase the number of interrupts on the system (e.g.
timer interrupt) and hence might not be useful for typical desktops, since
handling these system interrupts will not leave much CPU time for
I can't answer you completely ( this question for kernel maintainers ) :(
But as I know this value used for IRQ (see arch/i386/kernel/irq.c)
different kernel timers (arch/i386/kernel/time.c) for SMP (multiprocessor)
in APIC functions ASPI functions almost in all drivers even in PCI bus
and ATM
