powerd(8)

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Mon Apr 18 17:57:28 PDT 2005


On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:59, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I also have found that changing the polling interval to 150 is an
> improvement. Half a second is just too long, IMHO. I also discovered
> that with my system (P4M) that some settings can use substantially more
> power than faster settings, so I have kludged an ugly hack to avoid
> those settings. These changes make a significant difference in power
> consumption.

Can you elaborate on these?
It may be worth adding a general algorithm to cull the frequency list powerd 
uses based on this info.

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