Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:07:46 +0000 | From | "Piotr Jaroszyński" <> | Subject | Re: HZ from userspace |
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>> I want to be able to convert starttime from /proc/#/stat to absolute >> time and it seems that I need HZ to do that as it is measured in >> jiffies. How can I get HZ? I have seen some discussion about this but >> haven't found a definite answer. procps is using some hacks do it and >> I would prefer to avoid them. >> I only need a solution for modern kernels, say 2.6.20+ if that matters. > > `man sysconf`, in particular you want sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK).
manpage says it's obsolete and i read in some discussion that it only returns the default and not the real HZ used.
-- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński
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