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SubjectRe: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
>> >> Is there any way to stop this? I googled around and found it had
>> >> something to do with idle frequency of 1000 Hz in 2.6 instead of 100Hz
>> >> in the 2.4 kernel. I couldn't find much else on this. Hunting around the
>> >> code didn't help much, I don't know C.
>> >
>> > Change #define HZ 1000 to #define HZ 100...
>>
>> ... and lose all the benefits of HZ=1000.
>
> What benefits? HZ=1000 takes 1W more on my system.

Isn't it supposed to give more accurate timing?

>> What would happen if one
>> were to set HZ to a higher value, like 10000?
>
> Try it.
>
>> > Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java.
>>
>> Actually, I don't know which is worse, patent abuse or Java misuse.
>
> Well, java is ugly but not dangerous.
> Pavel
> --
> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

Has that really happened?

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Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx
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