Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6 | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:59:25 +0200 |
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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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