On Saturday 12 January 2008 04:27:46 pm Maxim Sobolev 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. I haven't done hard tests, but even with C3 enabled on my laptop I find that anecdotally I get longer battey life with powerd enabled. -- John BaldwinReceived on Wed Jan 16 2008 - 14:13:33 UTC
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