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

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > I really like having 250HZ as an _option_, but what I don't see is why 
> > > it should be the _default_.  I believe this is Lee's position as
> > > Last I checked, ACPI and CPU speed scaling were not enabled by default; 
> > 
> > Kernel defaults are irelevant; distros change them anyway. [But we
> > probably want to enable ACPI and cpufreq by default, because that
> > matches what 99% of users will use.]
> > 
> 
> If the kernel defaults are irrelevant, then it would make more sense to
> leave the default HZ as 1000 and not to enable the cpufreq and ACPI in
> order to keep with the principle of least surprise for people who do use
> kernel.org kernels.

Well, I'd say you want ACPI enabled. New machine do not even boot
without that. Default config should be usefull; set ACPI off, and
you'll not be able to even power machine down.
								Pavel
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