Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:40:30 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internal clock Message-ID: <19970403094030.30623@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <19970402203510.RR52594@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Wed, Apr 02, 1997 at 08:35:10PM %2B0200 References: <3340C326.6150@cybernet.com> <19970401151947.61221@pavilion.net> <19970401203429.XR37988@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970402123111.58518@pavilion.net> <19970402203510.RR52594@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 1997 at 08:35:10PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > > o The scheduling clock. This is a real clock with frequency that > happens to be 100. It isn't available to applications. > > o The statistics clock. This is a real clock with frequency that > happens to be 128. It isn't directly available to applications. > > So this explains the basic clock tick rates. There are exceptions, > for example if profiling is active (tick rate 1024), or if a kernel > device driver like pcaudio(4) (man page yet to be written by Søren :) > raises the clock rate to 16000. > Would you mind added the units to this man page. i.e. is it 100Hz, or 100KHz, or 100 camels? ;) Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]
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