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It shouldn't be power-hungry... A lot of OpenBSD developers use OpenBSD on their ThinkPads. It should work fine. Maybe you haven't configured power management.
by floatboth 11y ago
It shouldn't be power-hungry... A lot of OpenBSD developers use OpenBSD on their ThinkPads. It should work fine. Maybe you haven't configured power management.
In FreeBSD, it's powerd. In OpenBSD... apmd?
- zmyrgel 11y agoIn OpenBSD you can let the kernel do the power management with "sysctl hw.perfpolicy=auto". Also there was fix in ACPI in 5.8 to fix power use in newer processors. If I remember it correctly the processor didn't use the deep sleep states so they consumed more power.
- na85 11y agoYou're telling me what it shouldn't be or should be, but I am telling you what it is. You are free to search marc.info for the fruitless threads of me trying to solve multi-second system freezes when opening emacs or changing workspaces if you like. The fact that the devs dogfood their stuff is irrelevant: it doesn't perform even remotely as well as Linux on the same (modern) hardware.