Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:15:09 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <nate@root.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 Message-ID: <200511080015.19588.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <868xw0d3rs.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200511052355.jA5NtuPg026403@repoman.freebsd.org> <436E5797.7090605@root.org> <868xw0d3rs.fsf@xps.des.no>
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--nextPart1412342.mM42VyL5fn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:16, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> 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. Pretty odd the system freezes with a frequency change! I have an Inspiron 8600 and I don't see that behaviour.. Although I do get= =20 hitches reading temperature and battery info :( Tried a newer BIOS? =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 --nextPart1412342.mM42VyL5fn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDb1pv5ZPcIHs/zowRAvl0AJ0XkYmlelcUfPAKCXNVFJ9HrG1oMACgkSlE trgP8PLa+sUvPyJBdwIkk3Q= =nYhj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1412342.mM42VyL5fn--
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