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Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
>
> > Making it a sysctl is not good as lots of constants would become
> > variables. On the other hand, changing HZ and just re-compiling
> > the kernel should be sufficient.
>
> But then there must be a sysctl to obtain the currently selected
> value. So far, the libc has to guess and uses a constant value.

For a project I worked on I had to make a customized kernel with HZ >
1000 (x86, not alpha). It did work for us, but lot of userland broke
(i.e. top and everything that calculated process times).

Sysctl would be nice.

bobo

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