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I have seen this http://kaasxxx.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/linux-hz-checker/ But the script seems not to work. Does anyway know an easy way to check "HZ" in the terminal in Linux?
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But if you're on a traditional kernel and a traditional distro, you can find the current kernel's . config file under /boot with something like grep 'CONFIG_HZ=' /boot/config-$(uname -r) .
A jiffy is a kernel unit of time declared in <linux/jiffies. h> . To understand jiffies, we need to introduce a new constant, HZ, which is the number of times jiffies is incremented in one second. Each increment is called a tick. In other words, HZ represents the size of a jiffy.
HZ is the frequency with which the system's timer hardware is programmed to interrupt the kernel. Much of the kernel's internal housekeeping, including process accounting, scheduler time slice accounting, and internal time management, is done in the timer interrupt handler.
The global variable “jiffies” holds the number of ticks that have occurred since the system booted. On boot, the kernel initializes the variable to zero, and it is incremented by one during each timer interrupt. Thus, because there are HZ timer interrupts in a second, there are HZ jiffies in a second.
There's no uniform answer to this questions, as in some cases your kernel may be compiled "tickless" and not use a regular timer interrupt at all. But if you're on a traditional kernel and a traditional distro, you can find the current kernel's .config file under /boot with something like grep 'CONFIG_HZ=' /boot/config-$(uname -r).
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