From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261692AbULNXBW (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:01:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261739AbULNW6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:58:51 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:5310 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261692AbULNWym (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:54:42 -0500 Subject: Re: dynamic-hz From: Lee Revell To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20041211142317.GF16322@dualathlon.random> <20041212163547.GB6286@elf.ucw.cz> <20041212222312.GN16322@dualathlon.random> <41BCD5F3.80401@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:54:39 -0500 Message-Id: <1103064879.14699.75.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 09:29 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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. > > I have found that mplayer drops audio less often when the harddisk is under > load. > Ugh, because mplayer stupidly does disk i/o and AV playback and GUI in the same thread. Insert Xine plug. Lee