On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:06:39PM -0700, Tom Bradley wrote: > It doesn't sound like a good idea to me. For one, any timing that is > dependant upon this will be off. I do believe that uptime and sleep are > dependant on jiffies which is incremented by the PIT (correct me if I am > wrong). It is also the interrupt that decrements your time quantum for > scheduling. By changing the HZ value you will be changing your systems > performance. jiffies is not incremented by the PIT. jiffies is an ordinary variable which is incremented by the kernel's ISR for the timer interrupt. Cheers, Bill -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
