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Subject: Re: PATCH: /proc/sys/kernel/hz
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: 16 Jul 2001 09:50:35 -0700
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Rolf Fokkens <FokkensR@vertis.nl> writes:

> Some software (like procps) needs the HZ constant in the kernel. It's
> sometimes determined by counting jiffies during a second. The attached patch
> just "publishes" the HZ constant in /proc/sys/kernel/hz.

And what is wrong with

  getconf CLK_TCK

or programmatically

  hz = sysconf (_SC_CLK_TCK);


Update your libc and this info will come from the kernel.

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