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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:59:23 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c 
Message-ID:  <5293.1205780363@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:17:15 -0400." <200803171317.15812.jhb@freebsd.org> 

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In message <200803171317.15812.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>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?

We don't enable powerd by default, as Robert said, maybe we should.

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