Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:19:42AM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 00:47 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure at least one distro will go with HZ<300 real soon now
> >> ;-).
> >> 
> > 
> > Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that
> > require the 1ms sleep resolution is?  Something along the lines of "Get
> > bent"?
> 
> MPlayer is using /dev/rtc and was running smooth for me since the good
> old 2.4 days.

 VMware also uses /dev/rtc. So is NTP, which is needed when time drifts.
But they can't use /dev/rtc simultanously, as it's single-open device.
So running ntpd denies vmware and mplayer access to RTC. Bummer.

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