On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue? > > Saving battery on laptops. The only performance numbers anyone posted > > indicated HZ=250 sped up a kernel compile on a 16 CPU machine (!) by > > ~5%, and this was after the fact. Not exactly compelling... > > But since Linus and Andrew apparently all use laptops, us desktop people > > are screwed... > > Any chance they would make it a config option? > It is a config option, the available settings are 100, 250, and 1000. The problem is that the default has changed to 250. Lee
