Is the C3 possible with SMP?

Dana H. Myers dana.myers at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 19:32:52 PST 2008


Ian Smith wrote:

>  > While I suspect the value is indeed Watts, I do not know
>  > why you're thinking 36A would indicate 400W or more.  Modern
>  > CPUs typically run at relatively low voltages between 1.0V
>  > and 1.6V and proportionately high current.
> 
> Unless acpiconf -i has changed between 7.0 and now, it reports Present 
> Rate in mW, at least when running on battery.  My T23 right now reports 
> that as 13447mW, ie 13.447W.  With a present battery voltage of 12.247V, 
> that'd be 1.097 Amps battery discharge.  YMMV.

Ah - my error.  acpiconf -i reports on the battery, not the CPU.
For some reason I was thinking that we were discussing CPU power
consumption.  My apologies.

Dana


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