powerd feature proposal...(and a small problem)

[Evren Yurtesen]

George Hartzell wrote:
> Evren Yurtesen writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > The problem is with an 8 processor system. If a process is not threaded and 
>  > starts using 100% cpu time of a single processor, the system still shows over 
>  > 80% idle. Whereas this single process works really slow if the system is already 
>  > at the slowest speed. Is there a simple way to fix this problem? It is not so 
>  > big problem but sometimes it is quite annoying :)
>  > [...]
> 
> I edited /etc/rc.d/powerd and just after the command line I added
> 
>   command_arg="-r 84 -i 93"
> 
> [values determined by trial and error]
> 
> g.

I believe you can set those in powerd_flags="" in /etc/rc.conf also.
But that is not a good solution. Do we have to calculate this manually? :)

Thanks,
Evren