On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and > > > well people can select the one they want, right? > > > > Then why not leave the default at 1000? > > Because some machines exhibit appreciable latency in entering low power > state via ACPI, and 1000Hz reduces their battery life. By about half, > iirc. > Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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