[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Jul 13 17:52:06 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue?
> > Saving battery on laptops.  The only performance numbers anyone posted
> > indicated HZ=250 sped up a kernel compile on a 16 CPU machine (!) by
> > ~5%, and this was after the fact.  Not exactly compelling...
> > But since Linus and Andrew apparently all use laptops, us desktop people
> > are screwed...
> 
> Any chance they would make it a config option?
> 

It is a config option, the available settings are 100, 250, and 1000.
The problem is that the default has changed to 250.

Lee




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