powerd effectiveness

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:05, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> > Fair enough.. still.. makes testing simpler IMO.
>
> Agreed. However thats how i tested it :P

Heh
> > What does sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels say?
>
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
> # sysctl dev.cpu.0
> dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
> dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
> dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
> dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
> dev.cpu.0.freq: 87
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1403/-1 1315/-1 1227/-1 1139/-1 1052/-1 964/-1
> 876/-1 789/-1 701/-1 613/-1 526/-1 438/-1 350/-1 263/-1 175/-1 87/-1
>
> I think i meant 87, instead of 75.

Wow, that's weird, wish my AMD would do speeds like that :)

As for your temperature observation - I have no idea sorry. It would appear 
that powerd is doing the right thing but for some reason your CPU is not 
benefiting. That said checking by measuring temperature is fraught with 
complexity because there is probably a significant delay between a change in 
power consumption and a corresponding chaange in heatsink temperature.

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