May 15, 2011
4:56 p.m.
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:41:30PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
given that ubuntu ships with the kernel configured for tickless behaviour, and that RHEL6 also ships tickless, is it safe to say that tickless is now the standard configuration? is there a compelling reason to *not* run tickless with the latest 2.6 kernels?
Yes it is the "standard" and no, there is not any reason to not enable it. Unless you like burning extra power for no reason. greg k-h