From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>
Cc: James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:49:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42FA4C45.1020304@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050731220754.GE7362@voodoo>
Jim Crilly wrote:
> On 07/31/05 11:10:20PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
>>>I really like having 250HZ as an _option_, but what I don't see is why
>>>it should be the _default_. I believe this is Lee's position as
>>>Last I checked, ACPI and CPU speed scaling were not enabled by default;
>>
>>Kernel defaults are irelevant; distros change them anyway. [But we
>>probably want to enable ACPI and cpufreq by default, because that
>>matches what 99% of users will use.]
>>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Jim.
Thank you Jim, Plauger's "law of least astonishment."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-29 22:49 Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers Marc Ballarin
2005-07-29 23:15 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 10:06 ` Marc Ballarin
2005-07-30 18:05 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 18:18 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-07-30 18:14 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 18:35 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-01 20:00 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-30 20:04 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-31 20:21 ` James Bruce
2005-07-31 21:10 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-31 21:41 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-31 21:57 ` James Bruce
2005-07-31 22:32 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-31 23:20 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-08-01 1:59 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-02 9:08 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-07-31 21:54 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-31 22:02 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-31 22:18 ` James Bruce
2005-07-31 22:07 ` Jim Crilly
2005-07-31 22:36 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-31 22:39 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-01 3:49 ` Jim Crilly
2005-08-01 7:26 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-01 18:16 ` Jim Crilly
2005-08-10 18:49 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-07-31 22:12 ` James Bruce
2005-07-31 22:47 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-31 23:23 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-31 23:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-31 23:53 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-01 7:28 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-10 19:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-01 6:19 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-08-01 16:07 ` Jan Knutar
2005-08-01 18:45 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 9:13 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-08-02 14:58 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-01 7:44 ` David Weinehall
2005-08-01 16:18 ` James Bruce
2005-08-01 19:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-01 20:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-08-02 4:50 ` James Bruce
2005-08-02 13:10 ` Stephen Clark
2005-08-02 14:02 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 14:12 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-02 17:06 ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-08-02 17:45 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-02 17:55 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 14:15 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-02 14:20 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-08-02 14:22 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 15:18 ` Joel Jaeggli
2005-08-03 8:53 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-02 14:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-02 14:52 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 19:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-08-02 15:42 ` James Bruce
2005-08-02 15:58 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 17:02 ` Prakash Punnoor
2005-08-02 16:08 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-08-05 6:39 ` James Bruce
2005-08-11 19:22 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-08-03 9:19 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2005-08-03 13:57 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-04 12:52 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2005-08-02 6:45 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-02 11:23 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-02 14:08 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-02 14:31 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-02 11:25 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-02 14:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-03 17:13 ` Stephen Ray
2005-08-03 19:12 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 20:08 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-30 10:06 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-10 19:08 ` Bill Davidsen
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2005-08-03 15:20 ambx1
2005-08-03 16:47 ` James Bruce
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