Subject: Re: /kern/hz
To: Mark <mindfunk@mindfunk.net>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/29/2003 23:43:27
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:31:13PM -0500, Mark wrote:
> What does the value in /kern/hz measure? Is it the FSB speed?
> The value in mine, when read as mhz, seems too slow to be FSB or CPU
> frequency.

I believe it's the scheduler clock speed, in Hz. For example, 100
means that a process gets to run for at most 1/100th of a second
before the kernel switches to another process.
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