Kernel Timeslice

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 19:20:00 UTC 2008


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?

Perhaps if you explained what you are trying to achieve people might be
able to help you get there.

poc




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