Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:21:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Measured overhead of timer interrupts |
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>> The networking stuff in particular needs fixing, otherwise >> the timer values displayed eg by netstat look 'interesting'. > > Fix netstat, please, rather than kernel. > >> If anybody wants to try a higher HZ then something like the >> attached patch should be enough. But it probably still misses >> a few things (suggestions welcome). > > Scaling times is not kernel problem. > > Tools parsing proc contains so much of dependencies, that > it is meaningless to help them. > > For debugging I want to see variables EXACTLY as they > look to kernel. The fact that timer value = 1 jiffie > is critical information.
Feel free to steal the HZ calculation code from the procps package. I wrote it under the LGPL.
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