On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:52 +0100, Martin Wilck wrote: > Hi Tim, > > here is what I found in my experience: > > > 1. Employ a tickless kernel, probably a kernel close to 2.6.24. > > This has very little effect, because C-states have little effect on this > processor.
Do you mean your processor don't have higher level C-states as seen in /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power? Some older versions of Clovertown and Harpertown do no have support. > > This was the key for better savings in the intermediate load range. I > don't have the numbers here right now, but it's around 10W at loadlevels > 20%-60%. Thanks a lot! It even helped the benchmark result by improving > the maximum throughput by ~1%, which is very important for the final > benchmark result. I got the same benchmark result as under Windows now, > despite a slightly lower max throughput. > Great. Good to know it helps on your side. Tim _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
