From: Benjamin Koh (benkoh_at_stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 02:35:32 EST
"sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S." wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:13:34 -0800, Benjamin Koh wrote:
>
> >Long ago there was a thread about this. NT, OS/2 (I think) and Linux
> >call the HALT instruction when the system is idle, which tells the CPU
> >to turn off some parts of itself and save power. For win95, some people
> >wrote utilities call CPUidle and Rain, which do the same thing.
>
> Both OS/2 and Linux do that automaticaly, so you shouldn't need thouse
> utils to force the system to 'idle'.
>
Yes, this is exactly what I wrote. Idling is built in for these systems,
but not Win95 and its derivatives.
> btw mp3s on my AMD K6-2 350 (oc'ed to 380) run with 4 to 7% cpu usage,
> so you shouldn't consider mp3-playing a CPU intensive thing.
>
It all depends on what CPU you have. On my P233MMX disk operations can
cause MP3 playback to stutter, and the system gets noticeably hotter
during extended playback. Also if you have high bandwidth MP3s you get
more CPU usage. I have some 192kb/s MP3s - sound a bit better, but 1.5x
the size. I also have some 96kb/s and some 48kb/s files... OK and awful
respectively.
Benjamin
> þ H.I.C. & D.B.S. þ OS/2 Warp þ Hellas þ
> þ ServerConfig þ ConfigEdit þ OS/2 UK UG þ
>
> -[ playing
> "Rimsky-Korsakov-HerbetVonKarajan-NikolaiRimsky-Korsakov-Scheherazade-Part2.mp3"
> (0:44/12:52)
>
> -[ playing "Rimsky-Korsakov-HerbetVonKarajan-NikolaiRimsky-Korsakov-Scheherazade-Part2.mp3" (1:01/12:52)
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