polling of IDE CD-ROM drive at 10/second

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:01 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> By looking at /proc/interrupts, I see that there are 20 interrupts/second
> on the IDE channel that has two empty CD-ROM drives (actually one CD and
> one DVD) when running the GNOME desktop from a Workstation install of FC4.
> [cat /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; cat /proc/interrupts ==> delta of 200]
> 
> Is there a setting to reduce the frequency to only 1/second per drive,
> or to turn off polling completely?

urg.. even once per second is like way too much already :(
once per ten seconds sounds a lot more realisitic
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