On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Huh? Linux will issue HLT instructions when not doing anything else. > However, HLT does not really halt the machine, like when you're finished > using it, but only until the next interrupt. Yes, HLT does lower > power consumption. On a Cyrix 6x86 CPU, with suspend on HLT enabled, > power consumption changes from 24W to 0.3W. This is enough to hear > a difference in CPU fan speed. (I am running this hardware here.)
I heard something on comp.os.linux that enabling the CPU suspend on HLT crashed someone's system. Do you know anything more about this? Have you experienced any problems? (I am running C-6x86 as well.) // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
