Re: How to automatically set "Intel(R) On Demand Clock Modulation" ?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:00:36AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:58:30PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:54:29PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > > Is there a daemon that sets the value for machdep.clockmod.target
> > > according to the CPU idle state (like sysutils/estd does with
> > > machdep.est.frequency.target) or some automatical way to do it ?
> > 
> > No. Given that I can't find a measurable result for newer CPUs, I'm not
> > even sure if it is worth to have that at all.
> 
> Newer CPU's are beside te point; they can and should use estd instead.
> The ones which can't are interested in clockmod. 

I am just saying that I can't find *any* effect beside slowdown for all
systems I had access to. So I would recomment some actual measurements
before looking further.

Joerg