Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-07-30T18:13:42Z

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

> So it looks like artsd wastes way more power DMAing a bunch of silent
> pages to the sound card than HZ=1000.
>
> There's nothing the ALSA layer can do about this, it's a KDE bug.
>
> I think this is a good argument for leaving HZ at 1000 until some of
> these userspace bugs are fixed.

It's already 'fixed' just set artsd to release the sound device after some
idle time. It's in the "Auto-Suspend" seection of the KDE sound system
control module.