Semperon processors

[Matthew Miller]

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.

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