Re: Kernel Timeslice

[Bill Davidsen]

David Timms 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

I am surprised that the distribution kernel is set so low, and I would have 
thought it was a tickless kernel by default now.