Re: -current is sluggish

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:16:56 -0500
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:50:19PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:57:59PM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> > Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> > >Dear Hackers,
> > >
> > >after upgrading to today's current my laptop is very sluggish
> [snip]
> > and just to close this thread, all i had to do is put
> > 
> > performance_cx_lowest="HIGH"
> > 
> > into my /etc/rc.conf and then
> > 
> > # /etc/rc.d/power_profile 0x01
> > 
> > this fixes things for me.
> > 
> > i find it strange that /etc/defaults/rc.cond has 
> > performance_cx_lowest="LOW", but someone must have had a good reason for 
> > this.
> 
> I'm about to run CURRENT on a rather modern laptop with all the
> fancy power-control stuff, which I've never done before, so this
> thread is rather interesting to me.  According to rc.conf(5),
> performance_cx_lowest specifies a CPU power state when idle.
> Shouldn't it have no effect on the CPU speed when it has some real
> work to do?  Looks like there is significant latency in the CPU's
> transition from idle state to active state -- at least in your case.

Talk to njl_at_, who recently made this change.

Kris

Received on Mon Feb 20 2006 - 19:16:57 UTC

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