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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Jim Crilly wrote:
> On 07/31/05 11:10:20PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Jim.

Thank you Jim, Plauger's "law of least astonishment."

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