On 12/01/2008, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_digifonica.com> wrote: > I wonder if somebody did measurement of power consumption with powerd > and without it on typical tasks. There is very interesting idea in the > last issue of ACM Queue that it might be much more beneficial to run CPU > at the full speed and then switch it to low-power mode as soon as > possible in the idle loop than to run longer at reduced speed for a > longer period of time. That's a pretty neat idea, and will certainly get rid of the polling issue. The scheduler could scale the cpu clock, but I presume it would require some hacking effort... IgorReceived on Sat Jan 12 2008 - 22:26:49 UTC
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