On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:06:54AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> almost certainly about to embarrass myself with this question, but
> is there a quick way to list the current HZ value for the running
> kernel? without writing a C program. something under /proc, perhaps?
sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)
Linux exports HZ to userspace via AT_CLKTCK auxiliary vector entry,
for more details see include/linux/auxvec.h.
The vector is area between process's environ[] and argv[]. I guess glibc
reads the vector for the sysconf() call.
Karel
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