Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:09:20 +0100 | From | Martin Hermanowski <> | Subject | Re: CPU throttling?? |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:57:17PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:13:02 GMT, John Bradford said: > > > Incidently, Linux has always halted the processor, rather than spun in > > an idle loop, which saves power. > > It's conceivable that a CPU halted at 1.2Gz takes less power than one > at 1.6Gz - anybody have any actual data on this? Alternately phrased, > does CPU throttling save power over and above what the halt does?
If I slow down my 1GHz CPU to 732MHz, I get 15min more (195min total). So it is not much, but noticeable.
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