Re: Centrino not scaling to lowest frequency

[Felix Homann <fexpop-53koH/AXb86i2/dY4+mD5w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:50, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> That's because other Operating Systems do "throttling" on top of "CPU
> frequency scaling", even though that doesn't save you any energy. The
> better energy usage rates of Windows are a known problem; hopefully the
> dynamic tick patch will improve the situation in this regard.
>
> 	Dominik
>

Thanks for the info. The dynamic tick patch sounds really interesting! I'll 
give it a try.

BTW, Intel's CPU identifiction utility reports a system bus frequency of 400 
MHz when the CPU is reported to work at 600 MHz. Usually the system bus is 
running at 533 MHz. Is this the effect of "throttling" on top of "CPU 
frequency scaling" or is this something different?

Thanks,

Felix


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