Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: CPU throttling?? | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:20:34 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > > 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.
Does anybody have any data on frequency throttling on non-X86 architectures?
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