Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Christian Walther
On 21/01/2008, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Andreas Davour wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >>> > >>> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried > >>> to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some > >

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:44 +0100 Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 16:13:36 Andreas Davour wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems. On my old two-speed Thinkpad, powerd nearly halves t

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ghirai
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:41:41 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H. This actually works, without any hangups. I wonder if I managed > to hit upon a odd bug yesterday? > > /andreas > I've been using it since 6.2 on 4 intel boxes (one of them a notebook) without any pr

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Monday 21 January 2008 16:13:36 Andreas Davour wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems. > > Many different opionions here. How did you do it then? In /etc/sysctl.conf: debug.cpufreq.lowest=400 In /etc/rc.conf: economy_cx_low

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output.

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, why don't you use powerd? Now I know a reason. It made my whole computer freeze and C-ALT-DEL or C-ALT-BS didn't even work. Maybe it's not that stable yet. I use it with the -v option without any problems. I do no

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Monday 21 January 2008 09:45:26 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried >> to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some >> reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for >> simple debug output. >> >> Any

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output. Anyone have tried to do something similar? no but anyway - freebsd halt

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, why don't you use powerd? Erich Andreas Davour wrote: I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output. Anyone hav