Variable timer tick rate?

From: Nate Lawson (nate_at_root.org)
Date: 10/18/03

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    Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:02:29 -0700 (PDT)
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    This is an interesting approach. If there are no upcoming timeouts,
    decrease the tick rate. Of course, you have to amortize the cost of
    resetting the timer over the period of no ticks.

    http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1006

    -Nate
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