>> Should HZ=1024 be safe on x86?
>
> Yes. Irda used to be broken w.r.t. HZ but is fixed now. Oh and
> you'll need to recompile things like top. But with exception of
> pstools HZ=1024 i386 system works just well.
Any recent version of top will autodetect HZ at run time.
You should be able to use a HZ value of 800, 1000, or 1024
(some popular values) without recompiling top or ps.
You don't even need to hack /proc to hide the non-standard HZ.
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