ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Kevin Day wrote:
> > ISTR FreeBSD defaults to a very conservative setting here so you
> > may have to set it manually.
>
> Yeah, sorry for not mentioning that I had tried this and didn't see
> any change, so I thought I was on the wrong track.

OK.

> Is the note about adding hint.apic.0.clock=0 mentioned on
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption needed to leave C1 at
> all on SMP systems?

Dunno sorry.. The only SMP system I have running a recent FreeBSD only 
supports C1 :)


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