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From: Andi Kleen <ak-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
To: Anil Mamede <amak-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: what is throttling?
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:20:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041007152047.GG21444@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4165588F.8000109-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:54:07PM +0000, Anil Mamede wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> 
> 
> >though I don't see real usefullness for throttling anyway, so
> >I've not tested if that works.
> >
> 
> If throttling can save energy, why not throttling. The few things i do 
> with my computer is coding, doing some word process and listen to mp3. 
> Right now i cant put ACPI working. But if i had i whould throttle 
> because the CPU stays a lot of time idle.

You don't really want throttling, it takes a long time to get out of
and is quite slow.  Result is that the desktop becomes very 
unresponsive.


-Andi


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-06  9:04 what is throttling? Keld Jørn Simonsen
     [not found] ` <20041006090408.GA17104-EittdKFJ/bZ/SzgSGea1oA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-06 10:05   ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-10-06 11:49   ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]     ` <20041006114935.GF17247-B4tOwbsTzaBolqkO4TVVkw@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-06 13:21       ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-10-06 14:12       ` Bruno Ducrot
     [not found]         ` <20041006141245.GB6785-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-06 14:23           ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]             ` <20041006142358.GO17247-B4tOwbsTzaBolqkO4TVVkw@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-06 15:56               ` Bruno Ducrot
2004-10-07 14:54           ` Anil Mamede
     [not found]             ` <4165588F.8000109-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-07 13:43               ` Dominik Brodowski
     [not found]                 ` <20041007134321.GA26345-X3ehHDuj6sIIGcDfoQAp7BvVK+yQ3ZXh@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-07 15:38                   ` Anil Mamede
     [not found]                     ` <416562FB.2060507-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-07 14:32                       ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-10-07 15:20               ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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