From: tabris <tabris@tabris.net>
To: arjanv@redhat.com, Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:19:00 -0500
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On Saturday 13 March 2004 12:24 pm, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:17, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Is it possible to find out what the kernel's notion of HZ is from user
> > space?
> > It seem to change from system to system and between 2.4 (100 on i386)
> > to 2.6 (1000 on i386).
>
> if you can see 1000 from userspace that is a bad kernel bug; can you say
> where you find something in units of 1000 ?
2.6.3-rc1-mm1

procinfo gives the timer interrupt counting 1000 ints/sec
tho procinfo is broken for other stuff like 2.4 showed pages swapped, pages 
read in and out.

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