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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Voluspa <lista1@telia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3 Battery times at 100/250/1000 Hz = Zero difference
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:14:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490507211114227720b0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050721200448.5c4a2ea0.lista1@telia.com>

On 7/21/05, Voluspa <lista1@telia.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd gladly (ehum..) redo this mind-numbingly boring test if someone can
> point me to a magic software which unleashes some untapped powersaving
> feature of the CPU.
> 
> _Kernel 2.6.13-rc3 Boot to Death_:
> 
> 2h48m at 100 HZ
> 2h48m at 250 HZ
> 2h47m at 1000 HZ
> 
> _"Load"_:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> touch time-hz-start
> while (true) do
>     touch time-hz-end
>     sleep 1m
> done
> 
Ok, so with an idle machine, different HZ makes no noticeable
difference, but I'd suspect things would be different if the machine
was actually doing some work.
Would be more interresting to see how long it lasts with a light load
and with a heavy load.

-- 
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-21 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-21 18:04 2.6.13-rc3 Battery times at 100/250/1000 Hz = Zero difference Voluspa
2005-07-21 18:14 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-07-21 18:33   ` Voluspa
2005-07-22 14:48   ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-22 17:15     ` Voluspa
2005-07-22 18:02       ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-22 18:28         ` Voluspa
2005-07-22 18:44         ` Voluspa
2005-07-25 10:21           ` Tony Lindgren
2005-07-25 18:30             ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-21 18:49 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2005-07-21 19:01   ` Voluspa
2005-07-26 13:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-07-26 14:53   ` Voluspa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-26  5:23 Brown, Len
2005-07-26 14:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-26  6:29 Voluspa

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