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Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
To: davidsen@tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:54:34 +0000 (GMT)
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> 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
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