Re: sleep() API behaves different between 2.4 and 2.6

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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?


Erik

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