On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:24, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > > Nearly all of the energy going into the CPU is disipated as heat. > > Of course. But the goal of powerd is to reduce power comsuption with > nearly no visible impact on performance. This imply that if the > runpercent is nearly 100%, then the processor will be put to full > frequency even though this can imply an overheat situation. > The role of acpi_thermal is to reduce frequency if the processor is > too hot, and this imply performance loss if runpercent is high.
Yes, but the original poster was wondering why their CPU temperature didn't go down when the clock was (allegedly) very slow. -- 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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