Jiffies?

james · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 2:40 am Post subject: Jiffies?

What are they and why do I need them?

So if I need them, how many do I use?

J
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Gentoo's and counting

russell316 · n00b Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 3

The number of elapsed ticks since the system was started; it is set to 0 during kernel initialization and incremented by 1 when a timer interrupt occurs, that is, on every tick.

this comes from the "Understanding the Linux Kernel" by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati