Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Robert Hancock <> | | Subject | Re: Question about not saving power | | Date | Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:02:53 -0600 | |
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I tried playing with some audio apps like JACK and fluidsynth, and noticed the
> following. If I set the parameters in JACK so that the latency becomes less
> than ~10 milliseconds, a faint tone appears in the headphones connected to the
> onboard sound card.
>
> I guess that its frequency is the tone is the same as that of the interrupts
> generated by the sound card. The tone disappears if I run something like
> "while : ; do : ; done" that consumes CPU time continuously, so I guess this
> has something to do with the power-saving features and less-than-perfect PSU.
>
> My question is: what are my options (like kernel parameters) to disable power-
> saving features, other than running such CPU-eating process continuously?
You can try booting with idle=poll on kernel command line, so the CPU
will not enter halt states..
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