Jan Ceuleers  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But that's not why I raised the question here. Ntpd's once-per-second 
>interrupt is nothing compared with the hundreds-to-thousands of wakeups 
>per second initiated by certain poorly-written hardware device drivers. 

Yes, is seems once per second is nothing to be worried about. I checked one
random idle linux desktop here and it showed a total of 13.0 wakeups per
second. For example, the ethernet adapter caused 3.2 wakeups per second
(from broadcast traffic, I guess).

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