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Subject: Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !
To: andre@linux-ide.org (Andre Hedrick)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:47:15 +0100 (BST)
Cc: george@mvista.com (george anzinger), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
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> Great HZ always defines units of jiffies, but that is worthless if there
> is not a ruleset that tells me a value to divide by to return it to a
> specific quantity of time.

HZ obviously.

Alan

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