I guess I should chime in here: 1.6GHz Pentium M notebook. Everything enabled: ACPI, USB, wireless, bluetooth. powerd_flags="-i 100 -r 25" The backlight is on continuously in FreeBSD. Lag is hard to notice, since it takes <100 ms to make the 100->1600 MHz step, but I can see brief lag if the machine is completely idle and I do something to eat the CPU that provides an immediate visual indicator of churn rate, like run an animation.
Battery life: FreeBSD, powerd running: 4.5-5 hours FreeBSD, powerd not running: ~2 hours For comparison: Windows XP, aggressive power-saving: ~3 hours As for heat, the surface hot spots all stay significantly cooler with powerd running. I don't have working system health stats in FreeBSD, so quantitative heat reports aren't possible. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
