From: Stephen Ray <steve@mrmighty.net>
To: Richard Cooper <syloriza@xersedefixion.com>
Cc: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: video sync: result of 2.6 kernel experimenting
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:58:29 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43152AE5.7070606@mrmighty.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.swckofgm5khrlj@sucks.airplane.fire>
Richard Cooper wrote:
>
>
> Anyway, I typed 'set' to see what HZ was set to, it was set to 100,
> but I figured the environment variable might be wrong. Playing around
> in /proc/ I found that there was an interrupt going off 1000 times a
> second, so I figured it was probably HZ=1000.
>
My understanding is that HZ is set to 100 in userspace, to avoid
breaking some userspace programs. It's not the same HZ value that is
used in the kernel source in 2.6.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-31 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-27 19:28 video sync timing Richard Cooper
2005-08-29 21:25 ` video sync timing + softer update Richard Cooper
2005-08-30 1:40 ` Frank Kotler
2005-08-30 12:40 ` Richard Cooper
2005-08-30 2:54 ` Stephen Ray
2005-08-30 13:44 ` Richard Cooper
2005-08-30 17:36 ` Stephen Ray
2005-08-30 20:24 ` Richard Cooper
2005-08-31 0:51 ` video sync: result of 2.6 kernel experimenting Richard Cooper
2005-08-31 3:58 ` Stephen Ray [this message]
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