Try the powernowd - it works very well. It has an aggressive feature which will skyrocket processor herz's, thus limitign the performance losses. It should be in debian sid (or experimental).
Alle Monday 2 May 2005 03:36, Carlos Rodrigues ha scritto: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm going to assume you're a Windows user trying to overcome a > > retarded Windows design flaw that has the CPU do a whole lot of > > nothing at full steam instead of using HLT instructions to let the > > CPU *really* not do anything when it's idle. > > > > Linux doesn't have this problem, the kernel has what you're looking > > for by default. > > The guy is talking about power saving, like letting the processor turn > off stuff _while_ executing HLT instructions. > > I'm sorry I can't help on the question at hand, I do this with a script > (specific to the VIA KT400 chipset) that runs "setpci" with some special > parameters to turn on/off this feature. > > Carlos Rodrigues -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
