Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000) | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:25:07 +0100 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
>> > Every notebook from thinkpad 560X up has produced some kind of >> > cpu-load-related-noise. You'd have to throw out quite a lot of >> > notebooks... >> >> You're right, I'm probably not the only one. It may be worth at least >> having an option to change HZ to less annoying values. Otherwise there >> are going to be lots of complaints when people try out 2.6 on their >> laptops and hear that noise. On mine, I seriously could not stand the >> noise more than 5 minutes. Not because it was that loud but 1 kHz is >> really annoying. > > Okay, we are probably taking other sounds. I can hear cpu-load-related > noise on every notebook from thinkpad 560X -- in a quiet room, and on > some machines its rather hard to notice. You probably have way more > annoying problem.
My laptop makes a slight noise in the speakers when there are interrupts. It's only noticeable with an external amplifier connected. There's also some ~1 kHz sound coming from the vicinity of the CPU, particularly when there is network activity.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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