On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > For an x86 hypervisor you'd probably use the APM interface to do this. > > On modern x86 "hlt" also doesn't save power. > > I looked into the APM stuff in Linux for a generic way to let Linux > tell VM it does not need resources allocated now, but did not like > what I saw. From what I can tell the wake-up from suspend state is > keyboard or mouse, which does not apply well to servers. The other > one is WOL but I fear the delay for starting would be heavy. > Is there anything generic for the idle Linux lowering the clock > speed or so that could be implemented for S/390 ?
I would have thought it better to look at ACPI, which is supposed to replace APM. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
