Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:13:42 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, 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: <20030115011342.GA5983@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030114230057.81B422A89E@canning.wemm.org> References: <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030114230057.81B422A89E@canning.wemm.org>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:00:57PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: >=20 > FWIW, we see a (measured) difference of about 50W on 2.2GHz P4's simply by > turning machdep.cpu_idle_hlt on and off. I expect the clock throttling > would make similar differences. For 1U rack-mount systems (especially in > California) this is a Big Deal. >=20 Which way's the way to reduce the power consumption? I would guess 'machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=3D1', but as that appears to be the default I thought I'd ask. Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj4ktcUACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYeLwCdEVgb4IjnDM0XTmH7cpcojQir SfIAn2olNbW4mFQv8aXIRrWuXsA4t2bB =TcBn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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