Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:48:28 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Andreas Davour <ante@update.uu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle Message-ID: <200801211348.29679.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <20080121094451.N1777@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801210437470.8344@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20080121094451.N1777@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Monday 21 January 2008 09:45:26 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried >> to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some >> reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for >> simple debug output. >> >> Anyone have tried to do something similar? > > no but anyway - freebsd halts CPU when unused, even at full frequency it > uses very little power wne unused. Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems.
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