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Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> The keyboard rate one is curious. The vmware one I can easily
> believe is caused by Vmware switching in/out of OS's without
> managing the APM state of the processor (and leaving it in
> powersave)

APM idling is done if apm_cpu_idle() is called, and then if
    DELTA(current->times.tms_stime)
    -------------------------------
    DELTA(jiffies)
is greater than the idle threshold of 0.95.  Could that ratio be
affected by VMware?  If so, how?

--
Thomas


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