Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:54:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Feel free to quantify the savings over the current setup with max power > saving enabled in the kernel. I just don't see how "wonderful" it would > be, given that an idle system currently uses very little battery if you > setup the options to save power.
IBM have a tickless kernel patch set for the S/390. Here its not battery at stake but VM overhead sending timer interrupts to hundreds of otherwise idle virtual machines - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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