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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:03:14 -0500
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches
Message-ID:  <43D9E1D2.6060207@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060127085653.GA51554@uk.tiscali.com>
References:  <20060125201450.GE25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>	<56988.1138220896@critter.freebsd.dk>	<20060126101138.GA40773@uk.tiscali.com>	<20060127024432.GT69162@funkthat.com> <20060127085653.GA51554@uk.tiscali.com>

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Brian Candler wrote:
> I guess this is OK, *if* you trust the power management system to do its job
> properly. Unfortunately I have very bad experiences of such things. In many
> cases I've ended up turning off power management completely and locking
> everything at max clock speed. Mind you, if I do that, anything you do with
> scaling factors isn't going to affect me, so actually I don't really care.
> I'll shut up now :-)
>   

Let's not forget, FreeBSD is really a server OS. Who in their right mind 
uses power saving features on a server? It sounds nice in theory, but 
doesn't work as well.




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