Re: Kernel Timeslice

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 12:49 -0500, Steve West wrote:
> > Steve West wrote:
> > > I am running Fedora 9 x86 64 bit. What is the kernel timetick per
> > > thread? How many threads per second does the kernel run?
> >
> > Probably not quite what you are asking but here goes:
> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/464
> >
> > run for a few seconds:
> > $ vmstat 1
> >
> > look at system|in = interrupts per second.
> > this is approximately the interupts per second or timer Hz value.
> >
> > from the kernel config parameter HZ_1000 etc:
> > getconf CLK_TCK
> >
> > DaveT.
>
> Is there ay way to set the ticks without rebuilding the kernel?
>
> Steve

Nope.
HZ is a static definition. (#define'ed in
linux/include/asm-$ARCH/param.h)

- Gilboa