Re: Non-standdard HZ values (patch)

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 05:52:34 EST


On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:18:31PM -0700, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> > Applications like top and ps don't work as expected but gives a
> > warning: Unknown HZ value! (3125) Assume 100.
>
> And many more will malfunction silently ...

Then they are broken and should be fixed at some point.

Really, people should be able to compile their kernel with HZ values
other than what they are presently and still have most (if not all)
of user-land behave.

-cw

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