Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:35 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <njl@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cpu.c Message-ID: <7856.1042584335@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:32:24 EST." <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In message <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin wri tes: >John Baldwin [jhb@FreeBSD.org] wrote: >> aggressive policies in the future. You could change the speed on >> your desktop by changing the performance speed to be 6 (75%) using >> the sysctl for example: > >The scary thing is that for my destop setup, I can turn my speed down >to 25% on my P4 and not really feel a difference in xterms, editors >and soforth. (I CAN see a difference, I just don't mind it much). > >Any idea about how much power this actually saves on a desktop? 30-60W, depending on just about everything you can imagine. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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