> The disk I/O + samba doesn't stress the CPU enough so it does not speed up. > Which is good :) I expect my disk I/O to keep CPU usage low, that's why we > have all that DMA, I/O controllers and stuff. > > Bad thing is, with the lowest CPU multiplier, something else is slowed > down. Maybe the communication with the southbridge or the CPU gets very > ineffective in processing data from the bus or something completly > different ... At the moment > apm -C is not tunable and in my case with my hardware it is not sensitive > enough > but I don't care that much since I'm more concerned with power consumption > than raw performance. > > Will it be a problem for you? > I have no idea, you should try it with your hardware. > > Regards, Daniel. >
I have a friend who is going to need very low power consumption. Therefore I'm currently looking into the ways to do so with OpenBSD and more or less dedicated hardware.
