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It says "lower spec"

It says "lower spec"

Posted Sep 2, 2009 13:41 UTC (Wed) by guus (subscriber, #41608)
In reply to: It says "lower spec" by alex
Parent article: Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler

Notice the line directly above the note about configuring for 1000Hz and disabling tickless:

"THESE ARE OPTIONAL FOR LOWEST LATENCY. YOU DO NOT NEED THESE!"

So with tickless kernels, you get a slightly less low latency, but it would work fine.


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It says "lower spec"

Posted Sep 2, 2009 15:12 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

There is no changelog to the FAQ so I'm not sure, but I think that line is new. Ditto for the NUMA line. I'm sure Con Kolivas uses reasonably contemporary machines, even if he disdains optimising for machines with 4096 CPUs.

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