{"id":76,"date":"2008-09-24T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.neependra.net\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-09-24T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:35:00","slug":"jiffy-jiffies-hz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neependra.net\/index.php\/2008\/09\/24\/jiffy-jiffies-hz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiffy, Jiffies &#038; HZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jiffies :<\/span> The <span class=\"c\">jiffies<\/span> variable holds the number of times the system timer popped since the system booted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HZ: <\/span>The number of timer ticks per second, is contained in the kernel variable <span class=\"c\">HZ.<br \/><\/span>The kernel increments <span class=\"c\">jiffies,<\/span> <span class=\"c\">HZ<\/span> times every second<br \/><span class=\"c\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jiffy:<\/span> <\/span>On a kernel with a <span class=\"c\">HZ<\/span> value of 100, a \u201cjiffy\u201d is a 10-millisecond duration, while on a kernel with <span class=\"c\">HZ<\/span> set to 1000, a jiffy is only 1-millisecond.<\/p>\n<p>For more info<br \/>http:\/\/www.linux-mag.com\/id\/2272 (The Passage of Time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiffies : The jiffies variable holds the number of times the system timer popped since the system booted. 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