Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:03:14 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches Message-ID: <43D9E1D2.6060207@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20060127085653.GA51554@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20060125201450.GE25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <56988.1138220896@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060126101138.GA40773@uk.tiscali.com> <20060127024432.GT69162@funkthat.com> <20060127085653.GA51554@uk.tiscali.com>
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Brian Candler wrote: > I guess this is OK, *if* you trust the power management system to do its job > properly. Unfortunately I have very bad experiences of such things. In many > cases I've ended up turning off power management completely and locking > everything at max clock speed. Mind you, if I do that, anything you do with > scaling factors isn't going to affect me, so actually I don't really care. > I'll shut up now :-) > Let's not forget, FreeBSD is really a server OS. Who in their right mind uses power saving features on a server? It sounds nice in theory, but doesn't work as well.
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