Messages in this thread | | | From | Bobo Rajec <> | Subject | Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 19:02:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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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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