Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Alan Cox
2002-01-14T01:46:21Z

> Feel free to quantify the savings over the current setup with max power
> saving enabled in the kernel. I just don't see how "wonderful" it would
> be, given that an idle system currently uses very little battery if you
> setup the options to save power.

IBM have a tickless kernel patch set for the S/390. Here its not battery at
stake but VM overhead sending timer interrupts to hundreds of otherwise idle
virtual machines