Re: 2.6.18 regression: cpufreq broken since 2.6.18-rc1 on pentium4

From: David Rees
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 03:49:07 EST


On 7/30/06, bert hubert <bert.hubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:46:51PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> as a side note ... you realize that clockmod doesn't actually save you
> any power right? ;)

Indeed, and I've measured that too. But it saves an awful amount of noise!

If it doesn't save you power, how does it reduce noise? I guess it
keeps you from overheating your processor which causes the fan to spin
up?

-Dave
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