timer broken (was Re: fc5 hangs)

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:03 AM +0100 6/5/06, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
 ...
>Incidentally, during a recent kernel compile, I noticed that 1000Hz is
>not the default setting in the config; I think it's 250Hz IIRC, for some
>reason.
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Laptop power consumption.  At 1000 Hz, laptops often don't get to
power-save between timer interrupts.  Saw it on something (?) related to
lkml.
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