From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 02:17:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B7D16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D3343D2F for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from [212.227.126.205] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BIOic-0005kc-00; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:17:34 +0200 Received: from [80.132.235.192] (helo=Gatekeeper.FreeBSD.org) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BIOic-0006Th-00; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:17:34 +0200 Received: from StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org (StefanEsser [192.168.0.10]) by Gatekeeper.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927D95F18; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org (Postfix, from userid 200) id DA1A12314; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:17:31 +0200 From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?E=DFer?= To: Jeffrey Katcher Message-ID: <20040427091731.GA1337@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org> Mail-Followup-To: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?E=DFer?= , Jeffrey Katcher , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20040426223827.38541.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040426223827.38541.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:fa3fae9b6ca38d745862a668565919f6 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Interest in Load-Adaptive Power Daemon? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:17:36 -0000 On 2004-04-26 15:38 -0700, Jeffrey Katcher wrote: > I have something passable running now, though it's actually a hacked version of > wmcpuload (now wmcpuclock) so I can watch status and history. My question is: > Does it actually makes any difference in power consumption? Does your system support reporting an estimate of the remaining battery life via some hw.acpi.cpu systcl value (sorry, can't easily check the name of the parameter on my notebook right now). I have found, that dimming the display or throttling the CPU leads to an updated estimate after about one minute of delay on my Dell D800 ... > I raise and lower the clock speed (via sysctl ACPI MIB stuff) according to use. > The system does in fact feel correspondingly faster or slower. However, once > the > fan comes on, it never goes off again and I can't seem to override this via > sysctl. Is this just T40 ACPI BIOS bogosity (running 2.02 I think)? I just > seems > like fan power consumption would be the big hog on an otherwise idle system. How about just making the patches available for testing ? Regards, STefan