> I guess I am confused. How is it that raising HZ improves throughput?
> And was that before or after the changes in the time slice routines that
> now scale with HZ and before were fixed? (That happened somewhere
> around 2.2.14 or 2.2.16 or so.)
My guess is that processes that are woken up for whatever reason get to
run sooner, reducing latency, and thereby increasing throughput when not
compute-bound. Presumably this was with shorter time slices.
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