Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Re: kstat / intrstat

2007-01-05 Thread johansen-osdev
> So let's say my CPUs are 1200MHz, does it make each increment > 1/1,200,000 second? 1 MHz is 1,000,000 Hz. So if your CPU is 1200 MHz, that's 1,200,000,000 Hz. With this in mind, the increment would actually be 1/1,200,000,000 of a second. > And if I have 600,000 interrupt 6 increments in one

[perf-discuss] Re: Re: kstat / intrstat

2007-01-05 Thread Sean Liu
Reading yet another computer architecture book sounds too much to figure out this small issue. I only want to understand what performance impact these numbers imply. So let's say my CPUs are 1200MHz, does it make each increment 1/1,200,000 second? And if I have 600,000 interrupt 6 increments i