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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:24:22 -0700
From:      John <john@theusgroup.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: powerd and increase in energy need
Message-ID:  <20120322072422.5F4DD2B5@server.theusgroup.com>
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>If you are trying to reduce power consumption, why are you limiting Cx
>states to C2 (which save little) and not C3 (which will save a LOT of
>power when the CPU is not heavily loaded).

With my hardware, i5-650, using C3 does not result in lower power consumption
versus C2.  Both states draw exactly the same power.

hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C3
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C3
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C3
dev.cpu.2.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.2.cx_lowest: C3
dev.cpu.3.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.3.cx_lowest: C3
71w idle power

hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C2
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C2
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C2
dev.cpu.2.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.2.cx_lowest: C2
dev.cpu.3.cx_supported: C1/3 C2/205 C3/245
dev.cpu.3.cx_lowest: C2
71w idle power

John Theus
TheUs Group
TheUsGroup.com



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