Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts
Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
>> The networking stuff in particular needs fixing, otherwise
>> the timer values displayed eg by netstat look 'interesting'.
>
> Fix netstat, please, rather than kernel.
>
>> If anybody wants to try a higher HZ then something like the
>> attached patch should be enough. But it probably still misses
>> a few things (suggestions welcome).
>
> Scaling times is not kernel problem.
>
> Tools parsing proc contains so much of dependencies, that
> it is meaningless to help them.
>
> For debugging I want to see variables EXACTLY as they
> look to kernel. The fact that timer value = 1 jiffie
> is critical information.
Feel free to steal the HZ calculation code from the procps package.
I wrote it under the LGPL.
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