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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:05:58 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cpu.c
Message-ID:  <20030115000558.B30266@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:32:24PM -0500
References:  <20030114211406.A29186@freebie.xs4all.nl> <XFMail.20030114160441.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:32:24PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> John Baldwin [jhb@FreeBSD.org] wrote:
> > aggressive policies in the future.  You could change the speed on
> > your desktop by changing the performance speed to be 6 (75%) using
> > the sysctl for example:
> 
> The scary thing is that for my destop setup, I can turn my speed down
> to 25% on my P4 and not really feel a difference in xterms, editors
> and soforth. (I CAN see a difference, I just don't mind it much).
> 
> Any idea about how much power this actually saves on a desktop?

Hm, time to find my W / Wh meter again. My guess would be ~ 30-40 W.

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