| Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:19:13 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: dynamic-hz |
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>> Just being devils advocate here... >> >> I had variable Hz in my tree for a while and found there was one >> solitary purpose to setting Hz to 100; to silence cheap capacitors. > >power savings? Having the cpu wake up 1000 times per second if the >machine is idle cannot be better than only waking it up 100 times.
That's like saying waking up the CPU just to perform a HLT operation would be useless.
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