Re: dynamic-hz

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 03:30:14 EST


> Just being devils advocate here...
>
> I had variable Hz in my tree for a while and found there was one solitary
> purpose to setting Hz to 100; to silence cheap capacitors.
>
> The rest of my users that were setting Hz to 100 for so-called performance
> gains were doing so under the false impression that cpu usage was lower simply
> because of the woefully inaccurate cpu usage calcuation at 100Hz.

I have found that mplayer drops audio less often when the harddisk is under
load.




Jan Engelhardt
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