HZ
is Hertz, cycles per second. In the linux kernel it represents how often
the the kernel will interrupt a process that hasn't given up the CPU on
it's own. On x86 machines it's typically 100 times a second. This value is
used for timing things also. I think. see the kernel sources Documentation
directory for various timing facilities available in Linux.
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