Kulwinder Atwal writes:
> "Wayne E. Van Loon Sr." wrote:
>
> > In my opinion, a better
> > description of the jiffy is that the jiffy is the time of one "time slice"
> > for the scheduler.
>
> Yes, I was trying to be brief. The setting of the constant HZ (number
> of jiffies per second) will affect the result. The most common default
> setting for HZ is 100 which translates into 10 milliseconds. But many
> using RTL have set HZ to 1000 to get more responsiveness from
> Linux.
The "most common default" actually depends on the architecture. Look
into asm-alpha/param.h, for example.
Then that isn't a RT-Linux arch (yet :-).
Jochen
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