Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

From: Erik Tews (erik.tews@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 18:14:50 EST


On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:37:25PM -0300, Harald Welte wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there any way to read out the compile-time HZ value of the kernel?
>
> I had a brief look at /proc/* and didn't find anything.
>
> The background, why it is needed:
>
> There are certain settings, for example the icmp rate limiting values,
> which can be set using sysctl. Those setting are basically derived from
> HZ values (1*HZ, for example).
>
> If you now want to set those values from a userspace program / script in
> a portable manner, you need to be able to find out of HZ of the currently
> running kernel.

Have a look at the source of top. There is a lib which can help you to
find out HZ by reading some files from proc.
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