Author: wblock (doc committer) Date: Thu Jul 4 12:24:39 2013 New Revision: 252696 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/252696
Log: Put the power modes in a list to make them easier to find. Reviewed by: joel MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.8 Modified: head/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.8 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.8 Thu Jul 4 10:40:24 2013 (r252695) +++ head/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.8 Thu Jul 4 12:24:39 2013 (r252696) @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 21, 2009 +.Dd July 4, 2013 .Dt POWERD 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -47,27 +47,43 @@ The .Nm utility monitors the system state and sets various power control options accordingly. -It offers four modes (maximum, minimum, adaptive and hiadaptive) that can be -individually selected while on AC power or batteries. -The modes maximum, minimum, adaptive and hiadaptive may be abbreviated -max, min, adp, hadp. -.Pp -Maximum mode chooses the highest performance values. -Minimum mode selects the lowest performance values to get the most power -savings. -Adaptive mode attempts to strike a balance by degrading performance when -the system appears idle and increasing it when the system is busy. +It offers power-saving modes that can be +individually selected for operation on AC power or batteries. +.Bl -tag -width ".Ar hiadaptive" +.It Ar maximum +Choose the highest performance values. +May be abbreviated as +.Ar max . +.It Ar minimum +Choose the lowest performance values to get the most power savings. +May be abbreviated as +.Ar min . +.It Ar adaptive +Attempt to strike a balance by degrading performance when the system +appears idle and increasing it when the system is busy. It offers a good balance between a small performance loss for greatly increased power savings. -Hiadaptive mode is like adaptive mode, but tuned for systems where -performance and interactivity are more important than power consumption. -It increases frequency faster, reduces the frequency less aggressively and +May be abbreviated as +.Ar adp . +.It Ar hiadaptive +Like +.Ar adaptive +mode, but tuned for systems where performance and interactivity are +more important than power consumption. +It increases frequency faster, reduces frequency less aggressively, and will maintain full frequency for longer. -The default mode is adaptive for battery power and hiadaptive for the rest. +May be abbreviated as +.Ar hadp . +.El +.Pp +The default mode is +.Ar adaptive +for battery power and +.Ar hiadaptive +for the rest. .Pp -The .Nm -utility recognizes the following runtime options: +recognizes these runtime options: .Bl -tag -width ".Fl r Ar percent" .It Fl a Ar mode Selects the _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
