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

Pavel Machek
2005-08-01T07:28:42Z

Hi!

> > > If the kernel defaults are irrelevant, then it would make more sense to
> > > leave the default HZ as 1000 and not to enable the cpufreq and ACPI in
> > > order to keep with the principle of least surprise for people who do use
> > > kernel.org kernels.
> >
> > Well, I'd say you want ACPI enabled. New machine do not even boot
> > without that. Default config should be usefull; set ACPI off, and
> > you'll not be able to even power machine down.
>
> And there are older machines that won't boot with it enabled. The machine
> I'm typing this on has a really shitty ACPI implementation, I don't remember
> the details because it's been so long but I know that I have to disable ACPI
> for it to work right.

If it was long ago, you probably want to try again and file a bug
report if still broken.

Pavel

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