Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >> Is there any way to stop this? I googled around and found it had 
> >> something to do with idle frequency of 1000 Hz in 2.6 instead of 100Hz 
> >> in the 2.4 kernel. I couldn't find much else on this. Hunting around the 
> >> code didn't help much, I don't know C. 
> >
> > Change #define HZ 1000 to #define HZ 100...
> 
> ... and lose all the benefits of HZ=1000.  

What benefits? HZ=1000 takes 1W more on my system.

> What would happen if one
> were to set HZ to a higher value, like 10000?

Try it.

> > Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java.
> 
> Actually, I don't know which is worse, patent abuse or Java misuse.


Well, java is ugly but not dangerous.
				Pavel
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