Semperon processors

Alexandre Strube surak at casa.surak.eti.br
Sun Jan 30 05:26:47 UTC 2005


Em Sáb, 2005-01-29 às 10:55 -0500, Matthew Miller escreveu:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:41:29AM -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> > What they used to do was set the instruction halt (or something alike)
> > when the processor was idle. Having setiathome running forever will make
> > those softcoolers only a waste of memory.
> > I don't know what could be changed so fedora don't have this.
> 
> HZ is now 1000 instead of 100. This means the CPU is woken up 10 times more
> often from its halted state.

Why?




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