Re: dynamic-hz

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 11:29:35 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.
>
>power savings? Having the cpu wake up 1000 times per second if the
>machine is idle cannot be better than only waking it up 100 times.

That's like saying waking up the CPU just to perform a HLT operation would be
useless.


Jan Engelhardt
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