Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?

arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:59:52 +0100

In article <1019023303.1670.37.camel@phantasy> you wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 01:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> No, it also makes it much easier to convert to/from the standard UNIX time
>> formats (ie "struct timeval" and "struct timespec") without any surprises,
>> because a jiffy is exactly representable in both if you have a HZ value
>> of 100 or 100, but not if your HZ is 1024.
>
> Exactly - this was my issue. So what _was_ the rationale behind Alpha
> picking 1024

I seem to remember that this was for allowing True64 unix binaries to run
as well, those expect HZ to be 1024.....

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