From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timo Hoenig Subject: Re: battery life with cpufreq Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:45:38 +0200 Message-ID: <1127123139.11913.2.camel@nouse.net> References: <9cfa150205091902116057595e@mail.gmail.com> <20050919092448.GA9023@isilmar.linta.de> <9cfa150205091902354d5b4c43@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9cfa150205091902354d5b4c43-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: chapeaurouge-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: Dominik Brodowski , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:35 +0200, Fred Blaise wrote: [...] > ok.. So the fact that my CPU goes down to 383Mghz instead of the > normal 3Ghz is not frequency scaling? (pardon the noob that I am if > this question doesn't make sense) This is frequency scaling. But it has nothing in common with throttling. Are you saying that you're stepping down from 3 GHz to 300 MHz and do not see any improvements regarding battery life time? [...] See you, Timo ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php