On Wednesday 15 September 2004 04:55 am, Andi Kleen wrote:
Just do something that needs CPU power and powersaved will increase the speed automatically.
How would this relate to running something "nice" like a distributed-computing program such as Folding At Home? It's taking four days to process one of the larger work units on my 3200+ system. Is there a good way to speed it up without wasting too much power?
powersaved currently ignores "nice". It uses the load average, which is independent from it. So your Folding at Home client should always run at full speed.
I was relying on the output from /proc/cpuinfo, which now I note from the manpage of powersave is sometimes wrong, so I entered powersave -r and it gives me: cygnia@cygniapolis:~> powersave -r 18426217103360.000000 MHz That doesn't look right, does it? I'm not sure how to interpret a number like that, or maybe I'm reading it wrong. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA) cygnia@sonic.net