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Cc: Andreas Davour <ante@update.uu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle
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On Monday 21 January 2008 09:45:26 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried
>> to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some
>> reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for
>> simple debug output.
>>
>> Anyone have tried to do something similar?
> 
> no but anyway - freebsd halts CPU when unused, even at full frequency it 
> uses very little power wne unused.

Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems.