Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:25:29 -0400 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: cpufreq default governor |
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On 4/24/07, William Heimbigner <icxcnika@mar.tar.cc> wrote: > Is it actually "not working" though, even at the hardware level? To my > knowledge those noises are normal, and aren't even signs of a harware > problem. I believe it is the natural result of changing frequencies at any > time. If you change frequencies, especially in the low end of available > frequencies, you should hear a very brief noise. A governor such as > ondemand, which is rapidly switching the frequency from say, 333 MHz to > 2.66 GHz, is likely to make this much more noticable.
It's only normal if your vendor used cheap noisy components. This would be a fatal flaw for a system that was intended for audio production for example.
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