Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:45:17PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Micha Feigin <michf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Is it possible to find out what the kernel's notion of HZ is from user
> > space?
> 
> What for? It should be invisible to userspace...
> 

Its not. Some proc interfaces expect time in jiffies, which means
knowing HZ (bdflush in 2.4 or xfs for example).

> > It seem to change from system to system and between 2.4 (100 on i386)
> > to 2.6 (1000 on i386).
> 
> And can also be tweaked when compiling, and depends on architecture, and...
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