From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261184AbVHAT1i (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:27:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261182AbVHAT1i (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:27:38 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:39555 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261177AbVHAT1e (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:27:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers From: Lee Revell To: James Bruce Cc: David Weinehall , Pavel Machek , Marc Ballarin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <42EE4B4A.80602@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <20050730120645.77a33a34.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <1122746718.14769.4.camel@mindpipe> <20050730195116.GB9188@elf.ucw.cz> <1122753864.14769.18.camel@mindpipe> <20050730201049.GE2093@elf.ucw.cz> <42ED32D3.9070208@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050731211020.GB27433@elf.ucw.cz> <42ED4CCF.6020803@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050731224752.GC27580@elf.ucw.cz> <1122852234.13000.27.camel@mindpipe> <20050801074447.GJ9841@khan.acc.umu.se> <42EE4B4A.80602@andrew.cmu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:27:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1122924452.15825.48.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 12:18 -0400, James Bruce wrote: > Yes, Lee needs to chill a bit. I'll hopefully explain our position > calmly enough below. I am a bit frustrated because when I first objected to 250HZ as the default, I was told to come up with some numbers. Now we have the numbers, and they overwhelmingly show that 250HZ WILL hurt interactivity and WILL NOT save anyone any power in real life. But now the 250HZ people have changed their position to "yes, we KNOW we're screwing over multimedia users for the sake of laptop users, and we DON'T CARE about your numbers." Lee