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