From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 09:17:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EDB58D57; Mon, 5 May 2014 09:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ms-10.1blu.de (ms-10.1blu.de [178.254.4.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2F1E1312; Mon, 5 May 2014 09:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.204.137.79] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms-10.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WhF1O-0003Ba-Fz; Mon, 05 May 2014 11:17:14 +0200 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.7/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s459HApH001999; Mon, 5 May 2014 11:17:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.7/8.14.3/Submit) id s459H9W4001998; Mon, 5 May 2014 11:17:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 11:17:09 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market Message-ID: <20140505091709.GA1983@La-Habana> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz References: <3F7430D7-3C0F-43E1-8EBD-8AA4F701497C@FreeBSD.org> <20140503155745.GA2457@La-Habana> <20140503192305.GA1847@La-Habana> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r214444 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 89.204.137.79 Cc: Adrian Chadd , "current@freebsd.org" , David Chisnall , Eitan Adler , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Jordan Hubbard X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 09:17:25 -0000 El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: > Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you will use > the lowest available. The correct incantation in rc.conf is "Cmax". > performance_cx_lowest="Cmax" > economy_cx_lowest="Cmax" > > But, unless you want laggy performance, you will probably also want: > hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1 > hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1 > in /boot/loader.conf. Low Cx states and TCC/throttling simply don't mix > well and TCC is not effective, as mentioned earlier in this thread. In the output of: $ sysctl -a | fgrep dev.cpu.0.freq_ dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1600/2000 1333/1533 1066/1066 800/600 what does mean the value after the slash .../nnnn ? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign