-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:49:28AM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote: >> Mattia Dongili wrote: > ... >>>> See /proc/acpi/processor/CPU[01]/throttling, I have: >> Is that on Linux or kFreeBSD? > > the above quoted /proc entry is Linux, the one who is mixing scaling and > throttling is FreeBSD. > > ... >>> Oh, and let me add (even if probably aready mentioned): throttling >>> doesn't save any power, it just idles your cpu. Ok, less heat (no fans, >>> etc) but the real saving is probably unnoticeable. >> Taking into account that my laptop almost all the time heats up even >> if scaled down to 50% (1GHz/minimum) in Linux, thus triggering >> periodic fan runs at regular intervals, which, of course, leads to >> more power consumption, I'd welcome throttling .... although I don't >> know if it would make any difference taking into account my laptop >> always runs at 1GHz when on battery. > > well, the backside is that eg. building a kernel will take twice running > with the cpu throttled at 50%.
Well, I don't plan to do any kernel building while on battery and I am sure that a proper set of patches would allow me to configure when I want throttling i.e. I could configure cpufreqd or whomever to have throttling disabled while on AC and enabled while on battery ;-). > I haven't any measurement but I'm pretty sure you can find something > online (especially related to the P4 clock modulation which only allows > throttling, and in this regard I'm in favour of throttling too as my > desktop's P4 heats very fast). TBH, I am not that keen to look for such things as long as I can't benefit from the results :-/ - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2D8uY8Chqv3NRNoRAlsaAJ0cXgdxkFhJ2MNL2mfkrt4KciI+TACdG0U+ sfrTTtOJ6EYsX7rvsPC1NaY= =MLeB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
