On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 12:49 -0500, Steve West wrote:
> Steve West wrote:
>> I am running Fedora 9 x86 64 bit. What is the kernel timetick per
>> thread? How many threads per second does the kernel run?
> Probably not quite what you are asking but here goes:
>
http://kerneltrap.org/node/464
>
> run for a few seconds:
> $ vmstat 1
>
> look at system|in = interrupts per second.
> this is approximately the interupts per second or timer Hz value.
>
> from the kernel config parameter HZ_1000 etc:
> getconf CLK_TCK
>
> DaveT.
Is there ay way to set the ticks without rebuilding the kernel?
Steve
Nope.
HZ is a static definition. (#define'ed in
linux/include/asm-$ARCH/param.h)
- Gilboa