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From: Bas Mevissen <ml@basmevissen.nl>
Subject: Re: Pentium-M (Centrino): no power saved?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:00:05 +0200
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To: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
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Jan Rychter wrote:

>>>>>>"Bas" == Bas Mevissen <ml@basmevissen.nl> writes:
> 
>  
> 11048mW 900MHz, C2 only
> 10560mW 600MHz, C2 only
> 
> 9306mW 900MHz, C3 allowed
> 9306mW 600MHz, C3 allowed
> 
> So, it seems that changing the frequency actually buys very little if
> you're stuck in C2 (about 0.5W) and exactly NOTHING if the machine is
> idle and can use C3.
> 

Do you measure this from the ACPI baatery output? I still suspect that 
your CPU is only running at low speed all the time. So please boot with 
AC adapter in and check /proc/cpuinfo and reboot without AC adapter and 
check again. In the meantime, get bogomips as it is worthless as a 
benchmark, but usefull to compare :-)

Bas.