Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:53:15 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c Message-ID: <20080318065315.GR44676@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200803171317.15812.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4578.1205772826@critter.freebsd.dk> <200803171317.15812.jhb@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--eheScQNz3K90DVRs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:17:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >On Monday 17 March 2008 12:53:46 pm Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>=20 >> >You have servers that default to half-speed when not on battery? That = is=20 >very=20 >> >odd, but you can just run powerd [...] >>=20 >> 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=20 >powerd to avoid full-speed CPUs on boot (even though the BIOS throttles it= =20 >down for you) but you can't run powerd on the server? In general, I agree that powerd should be enabled but actually implementing this may have some adverse side-effects. I know using acpi_throttle with powerd on my HP nx6125 causes it to wedge randomly. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --eheScQNz3K90DVRs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkffZtsACgkQ/opHv/APuIeMDACfYAa3ihBD6W/TBKrfaB4dPadp bokAoKVKPiAO580rgkwx5HLXzFDvUbcv =XPIY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eheScQNz3K90DVRs--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080318065315.GR44676>