> -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Mouw [mailto:mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:54 AM > To: Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) > Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: sleep() API behaves different between 2.4 and 2.6 > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:43:18AM -0800, Bizhan Gholikhamseh > (bgholikh) wrote: > > From: Erik Mouw [mailto:mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > > > Your 2.6 kernel probably runs with HZ=1000. 2.4 kernels run with > > > HZ=100, so the minimum sleep time is actually 1/HZ = 10 msec. > > > > Is it possible to change the HZ on my 2.4 kernel? > > I guess it is, IIRC the Alpha arch always ran at HZ=1024. But > why would you want yo use a really ancient 2.4 kernel if > there's a much better > 2.6 kernel which already does what you want to achieve? Actually we are running dual Xeon Pentium processor. Unfortunatle we need to support 2.4 for legacy issues. Is there any way I could change HZ on my 2.4 kernel (hopefully with no side effect)? Thanks, B -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
