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Date:      Sun, 04 May 2014 13:05:22 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Leaving the Desktop Market
Message-ID:  <53667352.4030807@allanjude.com>
In-Reply-To: <53666102.5080205@allanjude.com>
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On 2014-05-04 11:47, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2014-05-04 10:28, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> El d=EDa Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman =
escribi=F3:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
>>>
>>>> Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 .
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you wil=
l use
>>> the lowest available. The correct incantation in rc.conf is "Cmax".
>>> performance_cx_lowest=3D"Cmax"
>>> economy_cx_lowest=3D"Cmax"
>>>
>>> But, unless you want laggy performance, you will probably also want:
>>> hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=3D1
>>> hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=3D1
>>> in /boot/loader.conf. Low Cx states and TCC/throttling simply don't m=
ix
>>> well and TCC is not effective, as mentioned earlier in this thread.
>>
>> Re/ powerd I have in /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>> # powerd
>> powerd_enable=3D"YES"
>> powerd_flags=3D"-a max -b adp"
>> #
>> performance_cx_lowest=3D"Cmax"
>> economy_cx_lowest=3D"Cmax"
>>
>> (and the additional hint.* in /boot/loader.conf as well). Which proces=
s
>> 'performance_cx_lowest' and 'economy_cx_lowest' target exactly as conf=
ig
>> values?=20
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> 	matthias
>>
>=20
> In a pretty unscientific test on my laptop (Lenovo T530 with Intel i5
> 3320M), setting hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest=3DC8 lowered power consumption at=

> idle by about 3 watts, which adds about 30-45 minutes to my battery lif=
e
> during conservative usage.
>=20
> Using PCBSD 10, so hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=3D1 was already set
> (apparently solves some issue with powerd on some AMD systems)
>=20
> I have added hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=3D1 but not sure where to expect to =
see
> a difference.
>=20

I see the difference now, with the p4tcc stuff disabled, the lowest
cpufreq is now 1200mhz instead of 150mhz


--=20
Allan Jude


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