Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches

Brian Candler wrote:
I guess this is OK, *if* you trust the power management system to do its job
properly. Unfortunately I have very bad experiences of such things. In many
cases I've ended up turning off power management completely and locking
everything at max clock speed. Mind you, if I do that, anything you do with
scaling factors isn't going to affect me, so actually I don't really care.
I'll shut up now :-)

Let's not forget, FreeBSD is really a server OS. Who in their right mind uses power saving features on a server? It sounds nice in theory, but doesn't work as well.

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