On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:06:08PM +0100, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: > > * Timeslices are 20ms long instead of 10ms. This solves the issue of 0ms > > long timeslices on machines with hz < 100. > > I'm not really happy having timeslices get larger. They're considerably > large already. Can you think of a way to derive a sane value based on > the hz?
20ms slices are a big problem. You only get 50 per second. This will yield all kinds of stroboscopic effects in video applications... (granted, that's probably not an issue on machines with hz<100...)