John Richard Moser wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: >> [various people]
>> Since there are no clock ticks when idle, you may as well go >> with 1000. It's better for music and video. > > Good idea! We can't enable it without doing some power profiling first. cjb has been doing lots of work in this area, so I wonder what he thinks about it. Many distros compromise on 250Hz, which provides more than enough precision for humans, while being 4x cheaper than 1000Hz. >> Those debug symbols are required so that "ps -el" can tell you >> where a process is stuck. Better: >> >> ps -emostat,wchan:22,pid,tid,pcpu,comm,args > > I did not know about this! :) Me neither... "emostat", lol! >> Also, do not remove hugetlbfs. One could use that for speed >> in programs that deal with big arrays. I've actually seen the >> difference in a performance class I took. It can really matter. > > Nods. That comment was because someone said there were no huge pages on > the Geode, which would render hugetlbfs useless. It's perfectly useful > if you have huge pages. It was me, but I was evidently mistaken. Still, I wonder if there are actually any real users of the hugetlb facility in our distro or even in the rest of Fedora. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
