From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 05:25:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B580516A426; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:25:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1058343D45; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:24:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0C5Ov18066773 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:54:58 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Jakubik Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:54:47 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <43C5A261.1020407@rogers.com> <200601121326.18384.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <43C5CB63.7060202@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <43C5CB63.7060202@rogers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1148451.ZxjGgqoG8z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601121554.55657.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.36 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd effectiveness X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:25:02 -0000 --nextPart1148451.ZxjGgqoG8z Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:52, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > powerd won't run your CPU at a specific clock frequency - it varies the > > CPU frequency based on current load conditions. > > The load was 0, only thing that was running was mbmon. =46air enough.. still.. makes testing simpler IMO. > > You could try what I do but there are some systems which are very slow = to > > change clock speed so this could be an impediment. > > What was part of my question, is it the hardware or the software thats > at fault here. I.e. would a cool n quiet system be better. Hard to say. I don't see how you can possibly get the frequencies you say with the hardw= are=20 you claim. What does sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels say? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1148451.ZxjGgqoG8z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDxegn5ZPcIHs/zowRAgCsAJ44Avtcz9S8TW3jg720PMqnTDyOmgCgoQP3 6jeBJ2dmGU1x0iY7ky6nwmY= =7tBp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1148451.ZxjGgqoG8z--