Re: battery life with cpufreq

Fred Blaise
2005-09-19T09:47:05Z

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