Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 04:09:08 EST


On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:41:31PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > [But we
> > probably want to enable ACPI and cpufreq by default, because that
> > matches what 99% of users will use.]
>
> Sorry, this is just ridiculous. You're saying 99% of Linux
> installations are laptops? Bullshit.

I'm not a laptop user, yet I'm using cpufreq on my Sempron 2500+.
cpufreq-nforce2 switching between 1,23 and 1,75 GHz makes 8-10 Celsius'
degrees difference on CPU temperature.

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