On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:25:59 -0700 Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org> wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org> wrote: > > > > [Moving to -current] > > > >>> I wonder if moving to HZ=1000 on amd64 and i386 was really all that good > >>> of an idea. Having preemption in the kernel means that ithreads can run > >>> right away instead of having to wait for a tick, and various fixes to > >>> 4BSD in the past year have eliminated bugs that would make the CPU wait > >>> for up to a tick to schedule a thread. So all we're getting now is a > >>> 10x increase in scheduler overhead, including reading the timecounters. > >> > >> > >> I use hz=100 on my systems due to the 1 khz noise from C3 sleep. > >> Windows has the same problem. > > > > > > My laptop makes noises when being (more or less) idle (I think I enabled > > C3...). Does this mean I should try to change HZ? > > Sure, you can do it from a tunable (kern.hz I think), you don't have to > recompile. No, a HZ of 100 doesn't work, the laptop still makes noises. And it only has C2, no C3... Bye, Alexander. -- Loose bits sink chips. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 08:13:47 UTC
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