From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:25:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xn09xwj24.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031212234028.GA541@elf.ucw.cz
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
>> > Every notebook from thinkpad 560X up has produced some kind of
>> > cpu-load-related-noise. You'd have to throw out quite a lot of
>> > notebooks...
>>
>> You're right, I'm probably not the only one. It may be worth at least
>> having an option to change HZ to less annoying values. Otherwise there
>> are going to be lots of complaints when people try out 2.6 on their
>> laptops and hear that noise. On mine, I seriously could not stand the
>> noise more than 5 minutes. Not because it was that loud but 1 kHz is
>> really annoying.
>
> Okay, we are probably taking other sounds. I can hear cpu-load-related
> noise on every notebook from thinkpad 560X -- in a quiet room, and on
> some machines its rather hard to notice. You probably have way more
> annoying problem.
My laptop makes a slight noise in the speakers when there are
interrupts. It's only noticeable with an external amplifier
connected. There's also some ~1 kHz sound coming from the vicinity of
the CPU, particularly when there is network activity.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-13 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-11 6:05 Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000) Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-11 7:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 7:15 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-11 7:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 17:18 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-11 17:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 18:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-11 19:14 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-11 18:35 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-12 22:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-12 22:57 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-12 23:18 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-12 23:40 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-13 2:25 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2003-12-16 3:04 ` john stultz
2003-12-16 5:20 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-14 1:05 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-14 4:48 ` Pat Erley
2003-12-11 7:30 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 8:25 ` Tim Schmielau
2003-12-12 8:00 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-12 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-12 22:50 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2004-01-03 18:16 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <010f01c415a4_27033d00_d100000a@sbs2003.local>
2004-04-06 13:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-11 19:22 Grover, Andrew
2003-12-12 22:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-12 22:58 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-12-12 23:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-13 8:36 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-12-12 15:52 Vincent Legoll
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