Re: runaway intr problems: powerd and/or hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest related

on 23/08/2010 11:43 Doug Barton said the following:
> Ok, so it seems that you're suggesting to disable throttling, so I added the
> following to /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> hint.p4tcc.0.disabled="1"
> hint.p4tcc.1.disabled="1"
> hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
> hint.acpi_throttle.1.disabled="1"
> 
> Not sure the .1.'s are necessary, but I wanted to be thorough. With that I get:
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2333/31000 2000/26000 1667/22000 1333/17000 1000/13000
> dev.est.0.freq_settings: 2333/31000 2000/26000 1667/22000 1333/17000 1000/13000
> dev.est.1.freq_settings: 2333/31000 2000/26000 1667/22000 1333/17000 1000/13000
> 
> hopefully that's more in line with what it should be? I'd really like to be able
> to at least use powerd since it does seem to help with heat when the system is
> idle (and by extension, power consumption as well).
> 
> Unless you say differently when I get up tomorrow I'll try this configuration
> for a little while and see how it goes.

So, how did this go?
Did the change make any difference?

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Andriy Gapon