Re: dynamic-hz

Alan Cox
2004-12-13T15:45:09Z

On Sul, 2004-12-12 at 23:36, Con Kolivas wrote:
> The rest of my users that were setting Hz to 100 for so-called
> performance gains were doing so under the false impression that cpu
> usage was lower simply because of the woefully inaccurate cpu usage
> calcuation at 100Hz.

It makes a difference for some HPC workloads. I run 100Hz because
- It improves battery life
- Laptops tend to lose ticks on battery status queries at 1Khz