From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: what is throttling? Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:20:47 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20041007152047.GG21444@wotan.suse.de> References: <20041006090408.GA17104@rap.rap.dk> <20041006114935.GF17247@wotan.suse.de> <20041006141245.GB6785@poupinou.org> <4165588F.8000109@mega.ist.utl.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4165588F.8000109-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Anil Mamede Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl