On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:17:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >On Monday 17 March 2008 12:53:46 pm Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> >You have servers that default to half-speed when not on battery? That is >very >> >odd, but you can just run powerd [...] >> >> Yes, but you need to know that you should run powerd in the first place. > >Err, I would just always run it. You are now saying that laptops have to run >powerd to avoid full-speed CPUs on boot (even though the BIOS throttles it >down for you) but you can't run powerd on the server?
In general, I agree that powerd should be enabled but actually implementing this may have some adverse side-effects. I know using acpi_throttle with powerd on my HP nx6125 causes it to wedge randomly. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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