Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000)

Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11T07:18:29Z

>> Why would you want to *increase* HZ? I'd say 1000 is already too high
>> personally, but I'm curious what you'd want to do with it? Embedded
>> real-time stuff?
>
> Actually, my reasons may sound a little strange, but basically I'd be
> fine with HZ=1000 if it wasn't for that annoying ~1 kHz sound when the
> CPU is idle (probably bad capacitors). By increasing HZ to 10 kHz, the
> sound is at a frequency where the ear is much less sensitive. Anyway, I
> thought some people might be interested in high HZ for other (more
> fundamental) reasons, so I posted the patch.

Ha! ;-)
A hardware fix might be in order ;-)

M.