Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:23:36 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c Message-ID: <20080317202023.X50685@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <5293.1205780363@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <5293.1205780363@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. in the past I had machines that after enabling powerd brought the machine down needing a full power cycle to restore. this had always been machines in production unfornately where pople had forgotten to do so during install and thus almost impossible to debug. I am fine with having this on by default for "install" (whatever that means) but changing that policy with a system update mergemastering might not be a good idea. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT Software is harder than hardware so better get it right the first time.help
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