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SubjectRe: Measured overhead of timer interrupts
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 03:21:46PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> I hope I misunderstood you.
>
> HZ is not only exported through /proc . It is an external interface,
> which applications can depend on. No matter what. They can depend on
> "read" reading in a piece from a file, they can expect "sleep (1)" to
> last a second, and they can expect HZ to be the value it was when the
> application was compiled.
>

sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) is the exported interface, not HZ.

miket


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