Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: dynamic-hz | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:00:44 +0000 |
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On Sul, 2004-12-12 at 23:36, Con Kolivas wrote: > The rest of my users that were setting Hz to 100 for so-called > performance gains were doing so under the false impression that cpu > usage was lower simply because of the woefully inaccurate cpu usage > calcuation at 100Hz.
It makes a difference for some HPC workloads. I run 100Hz because - It improves battery life - Laptops tend to lose ticks on battery status queries at 1Khz
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