From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 21:03:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E40C1065675 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:03:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dynasore@bigfoot.com) Received: from viefep18-int.chello.at (viefep16-int.chello.at [62.179.121.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589F98FC0C for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dynasore@bigfoot.com) Received: from edge01.upc.biz ([192.168.13.236]) by viefep16-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.7.09.01.00 201-2219-108-20080618) with ESMTP id <20081222210310.FDVS1339.viefep16-int.chello.at@edge01.upc.biz>; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:10 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.201] ([77.250.255.124]) by edge01.upc.biz with edge id uM361a01a2hp1p101M37FH; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:10 +0100 X-SourceIP: 77.250.255.124 Message-ID: <49500088.2080609@bigfoot.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:04 +0100 From: David van Kuijk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20081221233822.7E92545020@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20081221233822.7E92545020@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:03:13 -0000 OK, thanks again. I didn't know those tools. est is not supported om AMD64, but I will start experimenting with powerd. The main thing I want to accomplish is to lower my energy bill after I found out my server is costing me 50 cents a day of electricity. So any other ideas (besides powering off ;-) are welcome... Regards, David Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:31:04 +0100 >> From: David van Kuijk >> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org >> >> Thanks for the responses so far. >> >> I would be happy with S3. I am however a little confused about the >> abilities of my server as reported by sysctl hw.acpi. >> >> As commented below this line suggests that no other states than S4/S5 >> are supported: >> hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S4 S5 >> >> But this is also listed: >> hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 >> hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3 >> >> Are these last two overridden by the first, meaning that S3 is not >> available from my BIOS??? > > Yes. FreeBSD, by default, sets up standby as S1 and suspend to S3 because > almost all BIOSes support these states. Yours is the first BIOS I have > seen that does not do S1. That is really odd. > > In any case, you have no available ways to cut power when your system is > really idle other than powering off. Of course, you may be able to do > some power saving with powerd and EST if your BIOS and CPU support those.