Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:01:49 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: peterjeremy@optushome.com.au Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c Message-ID: <20080318.190149.-1672947782.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20080318065315.GR44676@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4578.1205772826@critter.freebsd.dk> <200803171317.15812.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080318065315.GR44676@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:17:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
: >On Monday 17 March 2008 12:53:46 pm Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
: >>
: >> >You have servers that default to half-speed when not on battery? That is
: >very
: >> >odd, but you can just run powerd [...]
: >>
: >> Yes, but you need to know that you should run powerd in the first place.
: >
: >Err, I would just always run it. You are now saying that laptops have to run
: >powerd to avoid full-speed CPUs on boot (even though the BIOS throttles it
: >down for you) but you can't run powerd on the server?
:
: In general, I agree that powerd should be enabled but actually
: implementing this may have some adverse side-effects. I know using
: acpi_throttle with powerd on my HP nx6125 causes it to wedge randomly.
/me too with the dv5000 that I have.
Warner
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