Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Alan Cox
2005-07-11T13:22:29Z

On Gwe, 2005-07-08 at 22:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ^^^^^^
>
> It's been over two weeks and nobody has complained about anything.

Then your mail system is faulty because I did. 1000Hz is good for
multmedia,
100Hz is good for power management/older boxes, 250Hz is too fast for
some laptop APM to avoid clock slew, too fast for power saving and too
slow for some multimedia weenies.