[geeks] Solaris X86 power savings control

Michael-John Turner mj at mjturner.net
Thu May 14 05:52:37 CDT 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:40:20AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Anyway, very neat program: get powertop and play with it if you have  
> Solaris.

Nice - I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that it works well on AMD systems,
as Intel developed it originally and it's still advertised as "Saving power
on Intel Platforms" [1]. It's available for Linux as well, BTW. 

Going to give it a try on my T105 now.

[1] http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

-mj
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