From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 29 11:49:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from browni.hq.palmreach.com (browni.hq.palmreach.com [195.198.168.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3274815020 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:49:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaj@ns.Raditex.se) Received: from Raditex.se (r9.se.palmreach.com [172.16.0.19]) by browni.hq.palmreach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id UAA30099; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:49:06 +0100 Message-ID: <386A65C2.B2BFF596@Raditex.se> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:49:22 +0100 From: Rasmus Kaj Organization: Raditex AB - http://Raditex.se/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , kaj@ns.Raditex.se Subject: Re: Temperature References: <19991229191516.17D671CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote, about processor temp, etc: > The main difference is that Linux halts the cpu in the idle loop, we don't. > As a result the cpu is in a tight spin waiting for a process to become > scheduleable. I have some patches half-done that I've been working on for > 4.0 that should probably be able to be adapted to the 3.x series. The FAQ says that FreeBSD does use the HLT instruction when idle, is this wrong? http://www.se.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN3561 // Rasmus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message