Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:35:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd effectiveness Message-ID: <200601121635.09835.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43C5EAB0.3090805@rogers.com> References: <43C5A261.1020407@rogers.com> <200601121554.55657.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <43C5EAB0.3090805@rogers.com>
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--nextPart2146451.dPc6vQSXtl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:05, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > Fair enough.. still.. makes testing simpler IMO. > > Agreed. However thats how i tested it :P Heh > > What does sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels say? > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU) > > # sysctl dev.cpu.0 > dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU > dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu > dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=3D\_PR_.CPU0 > dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=3Dnone _UID=3D0 > dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 > dev.cpu.0.freq: 87 > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1403/-1 1315/-1 1227/-1 1139/-1 1052/-1 964/-1 > 876/-1 789/-1 701/-1 613/-1 526/-1 438/-1 350/-1 263/-1 175/-1 87/-1 > > I think i meant 87, instead of 75. Wow, that's weird, wish my AMD would do speeds like that :) As for your temperature observation - I have no idea sorry. It would appear= =20 that powerd is doing the right thing but for some reason your CPU is not=20 benefiting. That said checking by measuring temperature is fraught with=20 complexity because there is probably a significant delay between a change i= n=20 power consumption and a corresponding chaange in heatsink temperature. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2146451.dPc6vQSXtl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDxfGV5ZPcIHs/zowRAijzAJ9uJXaQ0XgIV9UYoxtpaZw3Te+PdwCgnn6M ATwdNzY5Sy2tbhV0r+v7tEc= =eAO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2146451.dPc6vQSXtl--
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