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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:32:24 -0500
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, 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:  <20030114173224.A74488@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030114160441.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0500
References:  <20030114211406.A29186@freebie.xs4all.nl> <XFMail.20030114160441.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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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?

Thanks,

Drew

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