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Re: estd and P-States



On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:45:03PM +0200, Jes wrote:
>       sysctl -w machdep.idle-mechanism=mwait
>       sysctl: mwait: string too long
> 
> I've tried it with 'halt' and 'hlt' values, but no luck.

As I wrote, C-states are not currently supported. (Well, C0 and C1 are, but
that this is semantics.) Even when these will be supported, you will not
need to do anything to use these. That sysctl(8) is only for informative
purposes.

- Jukka.


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