[ltp] Power saving on my T41p

Patrick Huber linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:24:28 +0200


Of coure powersave will keep the CPU at 600MHz. For all the Java stuff I do, I 
prefer the ondemand governor - I don't like waiting ;-)

With powersave, you'll get the highest runtime.

Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2005 13.33 schrieb Damien Challet:
> > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
> > echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
>
> what about using the powersave governor ?
>
> if my t41p stays at 600MHz, its cpu temperature does not increase beyond
> 44C, even at full load,  so I guess that the consumption is much reduced if
> one keeps the cpu at its minimal speed.