From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 14:14: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB2B37B406 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1A7B43F1E for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:13:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 34583 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2003 22:13:10 -0000 Received: from 202-6-144-135.ip.adam.com.au (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.144.135) by eden.adam.com.au with SMTP; 9 Jan 2003 22:13:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3E1DF444.7020300@adam.com.au> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:44:28 +1030 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020926 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Cc: Matthew Seaman , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management References: <20030108232002.G61746-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> <20030109085442.GA10394@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <200301091915.H09JFUJ16660@asarian-host.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matthew Seaman" >To: >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