[ltp] frequencies, throttling

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Damien Challet wrote:
> Therefore if you use a laptop as a gateway in a very silent environment, 
> throttling may be a good idea if the fan tends to kick in (it makes 2-3C 
> difference in my experience). Otherwise, forget about it.

Only if the CPU is crap/very old, or something else is screwing up with its
ability to enter deep C states (like the el-crap UHCI chip, disable it by
removing uhci-hcd).

A proper mobile CPU (Pentium-M and friends) that is correctly supported will
stay most of the time at its lowest core clock AND with a lot of its
internal circuitry powered off or halted (C3 state).  That beats throttling
in diminishing the power dissipation by a large margin.

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  Henrique Holschuh