What exactly does 'Timer frequency' (under 'Processor type and features') do? Which timer does it control? I'm asking because it seems to have interesting effects.
I used to have it set to 1KHz. Yesterday, I tried setting it to 100Hz just to see what effects it would have. I didn't notice any impact on responsiveness. There is a funny effect with superkaramba though. I noticed it with the system monitor first, but I added a clock to see it better. I set the refresh interval for the clock to 1 sec, and everytime it refreshes, it seems to 'skip a beat'. Hard to describe it. When it refreshes to show the current number of seconds, it refreshes again a not-sot-tiny fraction of a second later and shows the next second. Then, it fails to refresh for almost 2 sec, then does it again. It seems funny because 100Hz frequency is low enough for a human to observe (or not, depending on what you're observing) but too high to cause such behavior. That means I misunderstand what this setting does, so I'm turning to you for an answer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
