Fighting for the power.

[Alexander Motin]

Gary Dunn wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 02:13 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> ...
>> What's about general effect, the main idea here is the same as in audio 
>> processing: result mostly depends on quality of the worst component. 
>> Your system may just have some other consumers which I don't have. For 
>> example, desktop CPU instead of mobile, desktop chipset instead of 
>> mobile, powerful external video instead of (or even in addition to) 
>> built-in, and so on.
> 
> Interesting point. Is there a power consumption benchmark for evaluating
> hardware for use with FreeBSD?

It is difficult to speak about benchmark, as soon as we are talking 
about idle power. I think the first step evaluation could be made with 
vendor provided data, as it mostly depends on hardware. If vendor speaks 
about 2 hours on battery, then there is quite small probability to get 
much out of that system, as it looks mostly positioned as desktop and 
may have many desktop components. And opposite, system declaring 9 hours 
must support a lot of different power-saving technologies to reach it.

-- 
Alexander Motin