powerd(8)

[Eric Anderson]

Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, sebastian ssmoller wrote:
> 
>> the currently implemented strategy caused the fan of my notebook to 
>> switch
>> on within 15 min which it never did with estctrl running :( ...
> 
> 
> I also noticed that powerd in adaptive mode keeps my laptop pretty warm.


There's been some discussion on the -mobile list (I believe) about this kind of 
thing before.  I think powerd is currently running with a 'best shot' 
configuration, and I'm pretty sure that if anyone has a better algorithm in a 
patch form for people to try, I'm certain the good people with commit bits would 
easily commit a patched better version.  I've been looking at this over the 
weekend, and I have a few ideas, but I'm not a C coder, so it could take me 
<insert enormous time frame here> to actually make a patch. :)  If someone is 
willing to code it, I could send a stream of possible example ideas in 'brain 
dump' format, and then do testing.

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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