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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:52:38 +0100
From: Tomas Telensky <tomas@matfyz.cz>
To: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
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Subject: Re: [2.4] Are jiffies in jiffies?
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> Hello!
>
>   [ I beleive this is real FAQ - so responding with private e-mails
> more appropriate.
>     ptr("RTFM") != 0 are welcome. ]
>
>   jiffies declared in kernel/timer.c.
>   Name suggests that it is incremented 100 times per second.
>   LDD2 suggests that it is incremented every 1000/HZ per second.
>
>   Is it just name misleading - or I really miss the point?
>
>   So to translate this to seconds i need (jiffies*1000/HZ)
>   and milliseconds are just (jiffies/HZ) then.

No. seconds are jiffies/HZ.
HZ = Herz = something per second :-)
HZ = something / second => second = something / HZ :-)

        Tomas