>>> On 1/4/2010 at 3:53 PM, Stewart Thomas J <stewartthom...@johndeere.com> >>> wrote:
> Regarding jiffies, we found this earlier: > http://linux.die.net/man/7/time > "On x86 the situation is as follows: on kernels up to and including 2.4.x, > HZ was 100, giving a jiffy value of 0.01 seconds; starting with 2.6.0, HZ was > raised to 1000, giving a jiffy of 0.001 seconds; since kernel 2.6.13, the HZ > value is a kernel configuration parameter and can be 100, 250 (the default) > or 1000, yielding a jiffies value of, respectively, 0.01, 0.004, or 0.001 > seconds. " > > -- anyone know if that holds the same on z hardware implementations? Check the value in /proc/sys/kernel/HZ on a particular system to make sure. On my SLES10 SP3 guest, it's 100, and on my SLED10 SP3 laptop, it's 250. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
