Re: HZ from userspace

[Piotr JaroszyÅski]

>>>> I want to be able to convert starttime from /proc/#/stat to absolute
>>>> time and it seems that I need HZ to do that as it is measured in
>>>> jiffies. How can I get HZ? I have seen some discussion about this but
>>>> haven't found a definite answer. procps is using some hacks do it and
>>>> I would prefer to avoid them.
>>>> I only need a solution for modern kernels, say 2.6.20+ if that matters.
>>>
>>> `man sysconf`, in particular you want sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK).
>>
>> manpage says it's obsolete and i read in some discussion that it only
>> returns the default and not the real HZ used.
>
> I believe the claim that it's out of date is out of date. manpages
> 3.0.1 has an update to this, according to a message I saw on this list
> a month or so ago.
>
> Regardless, the fields you're reading should all be showing USER_HZ
> which is fixed at 100 per second regardless of the underlying kernel
> HZ parameter.
>
> Try it.

Ah ok, thanks a lot for info, will do.


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Piotr JaroszyÅski
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