Arjan van de Ven wrote:
HZ may not exist. At all; people are trying to remove it. And userspace
has no business knowing about it either.
It can be helpful to know what HZ you are running at, for instance if you care
very much about the (average) precision of a select/poll timeout.
You can hack work-arounds to poor precision here using the /dev/rtc, but
it isn't fun...
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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