From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 14 14:46: 3 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1916D37B401; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41AD143F5B; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:46:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EMjZ9O007857; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: John Baldwin , Wilko Bulte , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cpu.c From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:32:24 EST." <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:35 +0100 Message-ID: <7856.1042584335@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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