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Re: ACPI throttling
- From: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: ACPI throttling
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:07:46 +0200
Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Harald Hoyer um 15:26:
> Found no daemon for /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling,
> so I wrote one, which takes the load and the battery status and throttles accordingly.
> You can use the initscript to start and stop it automatically.
> Use the "-d" option to see debugging output.
>
> http://people.redhat.com/harald/acpi/
Small warning here: IMHO ans AFAIK throttling often does not save power.
In opposite, it even sometimes can result in more power-consumption:
With throttling a calculation takes longer and so the power leakage
comes into play.
A good calcualtion by the old cpufreq maintainer and active cpufreq
programmer here (in german, see last post in thread)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=137842&highlight=cpufreq
CU
thl
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