cvs commit: src/sys/i386/cpufreq est.c

[Peter Jeremy]

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:
>> 
>> >You have servers that default to half-speed when not on battery?  That is 
>very 
>> >odd, but you can just run powerd [...]
>> 
>> 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 
>powerd to avoid full-speed CPUs on boot (even though the BIOS throttles it 
>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.

-- 
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.
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