From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 12:46:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5392316A41F; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:46:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE7143D45; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:46:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63ED2086; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:46:31 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_HAS_SPACES X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -4.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6FA2085; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:46:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1B16833C1D; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:46:31 +0100 (CET) To: Nate Lawson References: <200511052355.jA5NtuPg026403@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051105191616.M870@odysseus.silby.com> <861x1u55qg.fsf@xps.des.no> <436E5797.7090605@root.org> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:46:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <436E5797.7090605@root.org> (Nate Lawson's message of "Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:20:55 -0800") Message-ID: <868xw0d3rs.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Mike Silbersack , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi Makefile src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_battery.c acpi_smbat.c acpi_smbus.h acpiio.h X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:46:37 -0000 Nate Lawson writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > Try running powerd with a 5000 ms polling interval. With the default > > of 500 ms, it never seems to stabilize, but keeps oscillating wildly > > in the 75-300 MHz range on my Dell Latitude D600. > That is bad for performance. It can then take up to 10-15 seconds to > promote back to 100% CPU when your system becomes busy. It's not as bad for performance as me tossing the laptop out the window in frustration because powerd keeps changing the CPU frequency and the system freezes for just a moment every time it does. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no