[ltp] T60 battery

Don Perley linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:37:46 -0500


Chris Schumann wrote:
> So with that CPU, if your total system load is more than 0.6W (which 
> is the
> same as a hard drive at LOW POWER IDLE alone), it looks like you should go
> full speed for ALL CPU-bound tasks.
>   

Maybe take the caps off that "ALL."  You can have a low priority CPU 
bound task that will chew up all available CPU cycles (say, GRID 
computing) that you are only running to take advantage of idle cycles, 
but don't want to reduce your battery life (or put up with extra fan 
noise) to accommodate it.