Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:39:06 +0200 | From | Micha Feigin <> | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace |
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:45:17PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> said: > > Is it possible to find out what the kernel's notion of HZ is from user > > space? > > What for? It should be invisible to userspace... >
Its not. Some proc interfaces expect time in jiffies, which means knowing HZ (bdflush in 2.4 or xfs for example).
> > It seem to change from system to system and between 2.4 (100 on i386) > > to 2.6 (1000 on i386). > > And can also be tweaked when compiling, and depends on architecture, and... > -- > Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org > Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 > Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 > Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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