Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible

Alan Cox
2002-07-12T00:58:09Z

> Uh, HZ is not scheduler calls per second.
>
> Neither exactly is it interrupts per second, but _timer_ interrupts per
> second. It is the frequency of the timer interrupt.

Its not exactly that either. Its 'rate at which jiffies is incremented'.
The distinction is not pedantic its rather critical when you go to a
variable timer tick...

Alan