On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:10, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > > Thats the correct one, it is 75mhz. I was suspecting hardwares > > limitations in terms of modulating the frequency quickly enough. Just > > wanted to make sure. > > What you have noticed is acpi_throttle(4). The combinaison of > some VIA chipset and AMD processors give 16 frequencies. > powerd(8) is not designed for thermal stuff, and will never be. > It's up to acpi_thermal(4) to cool the processor if needed. > > Note that I think acpi_throttle(4) can only be used for cooling a > processor. I don't think it is usefull for power comsuption at all for > which > powerd(4) is designed. Some other people may have different opinion of > course.
I don't see how reducing power consumption could NOT affect the temperature. Nearly all of the energy going into the CPU is disipated as heat. > You may also want to check if sysutlis/fvcool can help you if setting > the above sysctl is not possible (but don't mix the two). How come? (I am just curious :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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