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SubjectRe: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]
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Linus wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
>> I'm one. I need HZ at least. Page size and the cmd+env size
>> would also be very useful.
>
> Why?

Need for HZ and page size: to scale values found in /proc/12345/*
Need for cmd+env size: to allocate emough memory

> HZ is already there. It's defined to be 100. You get it from
> the header files. End of story.

So we are stuck with 100 until the end of time? That just sucks.

(not a power of 2, larger than a millisecond, can't use the other
clock chip for it, system not as responsive, etc. etc.)

If we are not stuck forever, how do you suggest we write software
such that executables work correctly with HZ==1024?

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