Mark <mindfunk@mindfunk.net> typed:
: 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.

It's the "system clock" speed.  On i386 it's 100 since traditionally
you have 100 interrupts/sec on irq0 and that was the finest grain you
had for timing purposes.

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