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    perf_counter tools: increase cpu-cycles again · 81cdbe05
    Ingo Molnar authored
    Commit b7368fdd7d decreased the CPU cycles interval 100-fold, but
    this is causig kerneltop failures on my Nehalem box:
    
     aldebaran:/home/mingo/linux/linux/Documentation/perf_counter>
     ./kerneltop
     KernelTop refresh period: 2 seconds
     ERROR: failed to keep up with mmap data
    
    10,000 cycles is way too short.
    
    What we should do instead on mostly-idle systems is some sort of
    read/poll timeout, so that we display something every 2 seconds
    for sure.
    
    Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    81cdbe05
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