What version of OpenBSD is this ? Try -current with acpi enabled the powernow driver may be able to find the state data and you will have the opportunity to save some juice.
gwk On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 09:35:38PM +0200, James Lepthien wrote: > Hi, > > I run my OpenBSD 4.1-stable firewallsystem on a System which is way > oversized for my needs. > I want this system to consume as little power as possible so I need your > advices. I started the > apmd with the option -C but the apm output is the following: > > Battery state: unknown, 0% remaining, unknown life estimate > A/C adapter state: not known > Performance adjustment mode: cool running (2009 MHz) > > So the CPU is still running at full speed! Here is my dmesg output for the > cpu: > > cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) > cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2009.58 MHz > cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA, > CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR, > LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW > cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB > 64b/line 16-way L2 cache > cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully > associative > cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully > associative > cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz > cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) > cpu1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2009.26 MHz > cpu1: > FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, > CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW > cpu1: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB > 64b/line 16-way L2 cache > cpu1: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully > associative > cpu1: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully > associative > > Can I do something about this or is this simply not supported? Is there > anything more I can do to > reduce power consumption of my system? > > Thanks in advance! > > James
