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Power Management has always been tricky in how you approach it from a defaults perspective. For example, in ... Servers - you most likely want to prioritize al
by alberth 5y ago
Power Management has always been tricky in how you approach it from a defaults perspective. For example, in ...
Servers - you most likely want to prioritize always having max performance (in lieu of power/heat).
Laptops, you probably want to dynamically adjust performance since you're in physical contact with the device that's producing the heat.
Desktops, it's a bit unknown what the user might wants to prioritize (is it power efficiency, is it max perform, or a hybrid).
Microsoft got this right decades ago and just made it a togglable OS option for the user to decide.
- anthk 5y agoGNU/Linux too since Cpufreq. It's the DE's task to set that graphically to the user. Nothing difficult, at all. Under OpenBSD, apmd(8) handled that until now. https://man.openbsd.org/apmd https://man.openbsd.org/apmd
- mey 5y agoKinda drives me nuts when OEMs in windows decide they don't want to integrate with the Window power manager and instead want to offer their own take. Granted that seems to have mostly gone away in Win 10 and 11.
- buildbot 5y agoIMO servers are bit more tricky, these days there is a big advantage in operating in the best power/perf/watt window - the limits are in DC power and cooling