Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:04 +0100 From: David van Kuijk <dynasore@bigfoot.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem on AMD64 Message-ID: <49500088.2080609@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <20081221233822.7E92545020@ptavv.es.net> References: <20081221233822.7E92545020@ptavv.es.net>
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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 <dynasore@bigfoot.com> >> 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.
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