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Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 21:51 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I think this is a good argument for leaving HZ at 1000 until some of
> > these userspace bugs are fixed.
> 
> WTF? HZ=1000 eats energy like crazy. artsd eats energy like crazy. And
> you advocate breaking kernel because artsd is broken?!

Maybe I am showing my ignorance as a non-laptop user.  Is 6.67mW a
really big difference?

Lee