From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 00:57:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB3816A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:57:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7314143D2F for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:57:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3J0v1cY013733; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:27:01 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:26:55 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050418232944.271AD5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20050418232944.271AD5D07@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart20628293.OurAszTEo5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200504191026.55803.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Eric Anderson Subject: Re: powerd(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:57:28 -0000 --nextPart20628293.OurAszTEo5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 power= d=20 uses based on this info. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart20628293.OurAszTEo5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCZFdX5ZPcIHs/zowRAj+/AJoC7UkemH2SAsBquRV6j6aikIVzkACeNeSW REcpM92Yo2nytrdztMX2U+g= =VIKz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart20628293.OurAszTEo5--