IIRC this needs recompilation. Check out <linux/param.h> (i think. This is architecture dependant thing). On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:57, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote: > > -----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 -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
