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2007 Dec 06
1
tick_divider
Just installed CentOS 5.1 on VMware ESX and am attempting to play with
the newly added tick_divider feature. It doesn't seem to be making any
difference in the number of timer interrupts though. I set
tick_divider=10 which should reduce the number of timer interrupts to
100.
I wrote a nasty little scripts that queries /proc/interrupts every 1
second and still see an increase each second in...
2008 Jan 02
1
tick_divider kernel parameter for guest vm
...e.
A lot of testings has been done (thanks to Akemi Yagi for her great
work) and you can see the results here :
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189
As you can read at the bottom of the comments, it seems it was a typo in
the official RH Release Notes : you'd have to read divider= and *NOT*
tick_divider= ! (see
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html)
It seems so to work with the correct kernel parameter and so there is no
need to build a kernel-vm for CentOS 5.1 guests .. (it's still needed
for example for 4.x ..)
Keep on reading the comments on...