Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:18:01 -0600 (MDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers |
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> So it looks like artsd wastes way more power DMAing a bunch of silent > pages to the sound card than HZ=1000. > > There's nothing the ALSA layer can do about this, it's a KDE bug. > > I think this is a good argument for leaving HZ at 1000 until some of > these userspace bugs are fixed.
It's already 'fixed' just set artsd to release the sound device after some idle time. It's in the "Auto-Suspend" seection of the KDE sound system control module. - 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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