On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:59:00PM -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote: > On Wednesday, June 30, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > > > What you're saying is true, but that's not the only use case. Streaming > > media may not benefit from 100% cpu but may not be able to work properly > > at 0%. The same goes for other common tasks as well. Running at 30% or > > 50% will indeed save power for those cases where running at 100% won't > > make what you're doing finish faster and running at 0% won't work. > > You're assuming that the switch is so slow that running at a constant > average factor (of whatever) is better than simply switching to "high" > mode when there are things to do (not in idle loop), and going back to > "low" mode when there is nothing left to do (in idle loop/etc). The > system could litteraly be switching high/low several thousand times a > second... > > Try the diff, see if it works for you.
It's been pointed out to me off list. Of course I should have tested first and then came with issues as I found them. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
