Hi, On 30 Sep, this message from Roger Leigh echoed through cyberspace: > Thanks for all the helpful replies, everyone. > > In addition to CPU frequency scaling, which packages are recommended > for power management in general? There are quite a few, but some are > only for laptops.
Well, they are named for laptops, but nobody forbids you to use them on desktops :-) I don't see much you can do if the CPU doesn't do scaling. That leaves only the disk to spin down; nothing else can be controlled. Well, yes, you need to send the monitor to standby, but that's an X DPMS issue, and there's no package to be installed (just X config). For disk spindown, do this: - use a tmpfs filesystem for /tmp - mount your disks noatime - remove all daemons that constantly access the disk - install laptop-mode, configure it to handle AC-powered mode as well. For the rest, to reduce power consumption in the CPU, let it be idle all the time: the G4 (and all PowerPC desktop CPUs in general) are quite good at powering down unused function units. You can see evidence of this when fully charging the CPU: in no time at all, the Mini's fan will start spinning faster.... Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
