Re: battery life with cpufreq

[Fred Blaise <chapeaurouge-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 9/19/05, Timo Hoenig <thoenig-dCxI//HcOdFeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?
Yes. 
`--> cat cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 3.06GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 382.040
[...]
> 
> [...]
> 
> See you,
> 
>    Timo
> 
>


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