HZ values (was: Re: u386mon dumping core)
Sean Eric Fagan
sef at kithrup.COM
Fri May 10 07:47:43 AEST 1991
In article <1991May7.180013.23250 at beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld at stowe.cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
>Can anyone from SCO or elsewhere enlighten me as to why SCO Unix/386
>usesa HZ value (both in the kernel and as the environment variable) of
>60, and not 100 ? Or has this been changed ... or can it be ?
Backwards compatibility? A lot of binaries might assume the value of HZ.
(Personally, I recommend using gethz() instead of a #define HZ 100.)
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