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erm...what are jiffies ?

 - aW

	Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over
	to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example, process
	1's deadline is when jiffies=10 and so on. I just discovered the global
	variable 'ticks' which seems to suit my needs, is this correct?