HZ value changed from 250 to 1000 in the latest updated kernel

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Nov 20 15:31:42 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 21:03 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:44 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > The latest updated kernel has another HZ value (1000 instead of 250), 
> > according to:
> > 
> > > * Thu Nov 9 2006 Dave Jones
> > > - Change HZ to 1000 for increased accuracy.
> > > (Except in Xen, where it stays at 250 for now).
> 
> Woohoo, Rosegarden (which I maintain in Extras) doesn't bitch anymore!

Could it be this change also had an impact on ntpd?

At least, since this change I am facing severe problems with my ntp
setup (ntp clients are drifting away and have problems to sync).

Or is this just a random coincidence?

Ralf





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