On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Mark Haywood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lurie wrote:
>>>
>>> That's not true.
>>> cpupm mode can be changed by pmconfig on the fly.
>>>
>>
>> Should've been more specific in my reply, so:
>>
>> % vi /etc/power.conf  # Change to poll-mode
>> % pfexec pmconfig
>>
>> % pfexec powertop # shows proc. always at max speed % pfexec reboot #
>> After the reboot, powertop shows proc. at lower freq.
>>
>
> It is either a bug or your system isn't idle enough for poll-mode to lower
> the freq. either. I have successfully switched event-mode and poll-mode many
> times without a reboot.
>

I checked it just now on my system(OpenSolaris200906-snv111),
it works properly. When change to poll-mode, you'd better to set the
"cpu-threshold" to "1s". The default scanning cycle is 15s, which means
you need to wait for a while(>15s) to see the frequency transition.
============================
cpupm                   enable poll-mode
cpu-threshold           1s
============================
After issue "pmconfig", you should see the lowest frequency residency
in powertop if
your system is idle.

-Aubrey
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