From: Dominik B. <li...@do...> - 2005-08-25 14:05:12
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:57:53PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:50 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:47:48PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote: > > > On the other hand, in Windows I _do_ get 600 MHz without any further trickery. > > > And at 600 MHz it seems to give me a lot more battery life, too. How does > > > The better > > energy usage rates of Windows are a known problem; hopefully the dynamic > > tick patch will improve the situation in this regard. > > Hmm.. that's a nice way to put it :-) > > ANyway, where's this dynamic tick patch? Is it the one where you drop > the hertz from 1K to 100? Uh, no. http://lwn.net/Articles/138969/ has an explanation, don't know where the most current patch is -- best check the LKML archives for that. Dominik |