On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Lemon writes:
> >On Aug 08, 1999 at 11:36:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Lemon writes:
> >> > I've just committed the revised TCP timer code. There are some
> >> >user visible changes:
> >> >
> >> > User visible TCP timers are now in units of the system clock
> >> > (10ms for the i386)
> >>
> >> Please, can we have them be in milliseconds ?
> >
> >Wouldn't this mean writing a sysctl proc for each variable,
> >instead of directly changing the underlying integer? I did
> >consider this, but wasn't sure if it would be worth the effort.
>
> Yes, you'd have to, but considering that HZ is 1024 on alpha
> and 100 on i386 I think it is well worth the effort...
Actually on the alpha, HZ is whatever the firmware tells us. Its often
1024 but I remember SimOS used to pretend it was 1200 for some reason.
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