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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:55:05 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Daniel Nofftz <nofftz@castor.uni-trier.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset
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Hi!

> > Hey, don't get me wrong.  I'm all for power-saving.  That's
> > why I own a Via C3 based system.   The Via C3 works
> > great as an NFS server and draws 12 Watts max (avg.
> > is 6 watts).   For just email and web browsing, I'd definitely
> > recommend it.   I'd also recommend it for a small firewall/router
> > system.   However, for A/V apps and heavy compiling, it's
> > definitely not the way to go [BeOS C3 can handle one
> > A/V app at a time, but not several].
> >
> >
> > If the patch is really the way to go, then we should get it
> > put into the main distribution.  But if it is going to hurt
> > my performance, then I'd be happy to stick with vanilla
> > kapmd (hlt based) power saving.
> 
> eenabling the discconect function causes a performance drop of about 2-3 %
> as far as i heared ... but this patch is only for athlon processors
> on an

You could look for how long CPU was idle, and only if it was mostly
idle in last 10 seconds enable the bit ;-).
									Pavel
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