Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:20:51 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: power management Message-ID: <20081215231835.Y56482@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081215133957.4ef356ec@gom.home> References: <20081215133957.4ef356ec@gom.home>
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> my son read somewhere that linux does better power management than > freebsd. one specific item being that the cpu scaling is more > efficiently handled. my friend told me that freebsd does it better ;) anyway it's just "been told", "somewhere" etc. to compare things we first need to set up a metric :) > i don't know much about this stuff so i thought i'd ask here. > > 1. is there any accuracy to the statement? > > 2. is cpu scaling a kernel issue? if so, does this mean that the linux > kernel has coding in it which deals with the scaling better? IMHO it depends on hardware and ACPI. maybe linux handles strange cases better maybe not. Simply - install linux, then FreeBSD on same machine and check it :)
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