OSNews > Thread > "RE: Tickless?" by flanque

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th Apr 2007 06:36 UTC, submitted by RJop

Linux Kernel 2.6.21 has been announced. Linus writes: "So the big change during 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks (when it no longer broke for lots of people ;) go to Thomas Gleixner and Ingo Molnar and a cadre of testers and coders." More info here and here.

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RE: Tickless?

by flanque on Thu 26th Apr 2007 07:55 UTC in reply to "Tickless?"

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2005-12-15

You know when you stop your car after a long drive, it "ticks" for a while after whilst it cools down..? Well, some servers were doing that too, so this prevents that now.

Edited 2007-04-26 07:55

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RE[2]: Tickless?

by Shannara on Thu 26th Apr 2007 15:57 in reply to "RE: Tickless?"

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2005-07-06

Modded up for humor

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RE[3]: Tickless?

by Luminair on Thu 26th Apr 2007 16:11 in reply to "RE[2]: Tickless?"

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2007-03-30

This isn't Slashdot. In my opinion we should continue to keep the OSnews comments filled with intelligent on-topic conversation. That means no stupid joke posts.

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