powerd adaptive mode latching

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 16/01/2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk> writes:
> > That could be something to do with the rate of throttling of powerd; I
> > can't remember how long it was exactly, but under the default setting
> > it would take powerd 9s to go from 100MHz to full clock speed [...]
>
> Do you really have 18 steps, or did you have a higher ival?
>
> Have you tried setting ival to something like 100 ms?

Yup, there's 18 steps (if I recall correctly, don't have my laptop on
me) :-) I've got my ival at 50ms, but the point I was making was that
jhb's results were not surprising if he'd used defaults.


Igor