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

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2004-10-16 at 20:52, Lee Revell wrote:
> > What benefits? HZ=1000 takes 1W more on my system.
> Better timer resolution?

And heavily reduced accuracy on a lot of laptops where 1000Hz
is enough to make the clock slide every time the battery state is
queried or an SMM event triggers.

Getting the best of both worlds depends on the stuff discussed at OLS
being finished, then you can have 1Khz accurancy and battery life

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