Re: [acpi-jp 2878] Re: ACPI throttling changes

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:48:49 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Haven't gotten any responses to this yet.  Would someone who has working
> > throttling support apply the patch and test that they can indeed change
> > throttling through the sysctl listed above?
> 
> Well, seems to work, but I'm not sure if it works correctly:
> 
> # sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed=8
> # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=500 | md5
> 524288000 bytes transferred in 10.128099 secs (51765687 bytes/sec)
> 
> # sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed=4
> # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=500 | md5
> 524288000 bytes transferred in 12.186178 secs (43023169 bytes/sec)
> 
> # sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed=1
> # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=500 | md5
> 524288000 bytes transferred in 12.127831 secs (43230154 bytes/sec)

One would expect this to take longer, no?
Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 15:48:54 UTC

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