Am Dienstag 09 Oktober 2007 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: > Now if you were trying to transfer a lot of data to the laptop, would it > be more power efficient to do it at gigabit speeds so you can finish > sooner and shut down the machine entirely, or to slow to 100mbit and > take longer to do it, and hence spend more time powering the cpu and > ram?
There's an amount of data which would be the cutoff point. But I don't think you can by default make machines slower. So as soon as the link is saturated you have to switch to the higher speed. To avoid a ping-pong effect I'd use a timer for bringing the link speed down again. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/