Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:06:38 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | | Subject | Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts |
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Pavel Machek writes:
>> Should HZ=1024 be safe on x86? > > Yes. Irda used to be broken w.r.t. HZ but is fixed now. Oh and > you'll need to recompile things like top. But with exception of > pstools HZ=1024 i386 system works just well.
Any recent version of top will autodetect HZ at run time. You should be able to use a HZ value of 800, 1000, or 1024 (some popular values) without recompiling top or ps.
You don't even need to hack /proc to hide the non-standard HZ.
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