On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:17:49PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > David Schultz wrote: > > Thus spake Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 2 steps from 100% to 50.0% > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > Where is that explained? I'd really love to know about it ;) > > > > That's just the ACPI driver telling you that your CPU has a > > reduced power (half speed) mode. > > Can I vote for replacing "enabled" with "available", so it does > not look like it's being turned on on you, so that you have to > post to this mailing list asking about it, in the future?
I think what's needed is some good documentation about CPU throttling, because people are intrigued when they see it, and wonder what it does and how you tune it. I know I was surprised when, for the first time ever, I was told I could throttle my Athlon XP - I didn't even know it could be. I know it's fairly experimental, but I think this feature needs better documentation and development - for example, at the moment it's possible to set the economy_mode value to 0, which shouldn't be allowed. Other than that, it's a fantastic ACPI implementation, I'd say it's the best of any OS! -- Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
