Re: HZ question

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On 9/13/05, Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to know the kernels value of HZ in a userland app.
> 
> getconf CLK_TCK
>       and
> hz = sysconf (_SC_CLK_TCK)
> 
> both seem to return CLOCKS_PER_SEC which is defined as USER_HZ which is
> defined as 100.
> 
> include/asm/param.h:
> 
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> # define HZ       1000   /* Internal kernel timer frequency */
> # define USER_HZ  100    /* .. some user interfaces are in "ticks" */
> # define CLOCKS_PER_SEC  (USER_HZ)       /* like times() */
> #endif
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Mark

simply zgrep HZ= /proc/config.gz
on my box, I get CONFIG_HZ=1000
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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