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From: Bas Mevissen <ml@basmevissen.nl>
Subject: Re: Which cpufreq driver is best for ...
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:25:39 +0200
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To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
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Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:37:05PM +0200, Bas Mevissen wrote:
>
>>It depends on what you want. If you want to get battery life to the max 
>>(and power consumption/heat production as low as possible), you need 
>>p4-clockmod.
> 
> Well, if you run CPU hogs, the p4-clockmod driver indeed prolongs battery
> life and reduces heat production. But less work is done, also. So the ratio
> 
> 	amount of energy
> 	----------------
> 	amount of work
> 
> is better (lower) for the speedstep-ich driver than for the p4-clockmod
> driver.
> 

Yes, I should have mentioned that my remark only applied to wall time 
battery life without taking CPU idleing into account.

Regards,

Bas.