Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268819AbUJPUBY (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:01:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268817AbUJPT7x (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:59:53 -0400 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:52987 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268819AbUJPT7j convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:59:39 -0400 To: Pavel Machek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6 References: <41650CAF.1040901@unimail.com.au> <20041007103210.GA32260@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20041007143245.GA1698@openzaurus.ucw.cz> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:59:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20041007143245.GA1698@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:32:46 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 41 Pavel Machek writes: > Hi! > >> >> Is there any way to stop this? I googled around and found it had >> >> something to do with idle frequency of 1000 Hz in 2.6 instead of 100Hz >> >> in the 2.4 kernel. I couldn't find much else on this. Hunting around the >> >> code didn't help much, I don't know C. >> > >> > Change #define HZ 1000 to #define HZ 100... >> >> ... and lose all the benefits of HZ=1000. > > What benefits? HZ=1000 takes 1W more on my system. Isn't it supposed to give more accurate timing? >> What would happen if one >> were to set HZ to a higher value, like 10000? > > Try it. > >> > Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java. >> >> Actually, I don't know which is worse, patent abuse or Java misuse. > > Well, java is ugly but not dangerous. > Pavel > -- > 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms Has that really happened? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@mru.ath.cx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/