Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:44:28 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management Message-ID: <3E1DF444.7020300@adam.com.au> References: <20030108232002.G61746-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> <20030109085442.GA10394@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <200301091915.H09JFUJ16660@asarian-host.net>
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Mark wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> >To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:54 AM >Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management > > > > >>Try the ports/sysutils/fvcool port --- >>http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/ >> >>Using it has cut the average CPU temperature on my system from >>about 70C to about 50C. >> >> > >It looked interesting; so I checked it out. Then it turns out this >power-safe mode on your AMD CPU is disabled by default for a good reason: it >makes your system unstable, and/or causes it to hang. Then cool is suddenly >not so cool anymore. :( > You have somewhat misread the docs. To "prove" this, nobody using fvcool has reported instability on this or any other list. All HAVE reported a drop in CPU temperature of around 20C. In my case that means dropping from 55C to 35C. -- Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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