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  • The timing infrastructure has been reorganized as well, and uses something called the tickless kernel enhancement.

    Latest from Computerworld Joab Jackson 2010

  • The timing infrastructure has been reorganized as well, and uses something called the tickless kernel enhancement.

    Latest from Computerworld 2010

  • The timing infrastructure has been reorganized as well, and uses something called the tickless kernel enhancement.

    Latest from Computerworld Joab Jackson 2010

  • The kernel configuration includes the option to configure it as "tickless"

    G-Loaded! 2009

  • (version 2.6.32), using the "tickless" feature, specifically for Virtualbox, but, after spending many hours with it, I could not make it recognize my root LVM volumes.

    G-Loaded! 2009

  • I was sufficiently humiliated to be in the sixth grade and having my mom lift my testes up to check for unwanted bugs ... but tickless nevertheless.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2003

  • I was sufficiently humiliated to be in the sixth grade and having my mom lift my testes up to check for unwanted bugs ... but tickless nevertheless.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000

  • The tickless kernel feature relies instead on hardware-based timers, allowing the CPU to go to sleep in those periods when there are no other chores to complete.

    Latest from Computerworld Joab Jackson 2010

  • The tickless kernel feature relies instead on hardware-based timers, allowing the CPU to go to sleep in those periods when there are no other chores to complete.

    Latest from Computerworld Joab Jackson 2010

  • The tickless kernel feature relies instead on hardware-based timers, allowing the CPU to go to sleep in those periods when there are no other chores to complete.

    Latest from Computerworld 2010

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