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4.1 KiB
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141 lines
4.1 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Nate Lawson
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 24, 2008
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.Dt POWERD 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm powerd
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.Nd "system power control utility"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl a Ar mode
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.Op Fl b Ar mode
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.Op Fl i Ar percent
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.Op Fl n Ar mode
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.Op Fl p Ar ival
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.Op Fl P Ar pidfile
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.Op Fl r Ar percent
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.Op Fl v
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility monitors the system state and sets various power control options
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accordingly.
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It offers three modes (maximum, minimum, and adaptive) that can be
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individually selected while on AC power or batteries.
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The modes maximum, minimum, adaptive and hiadaptive may be abbreviated
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max, min, adp, hadp.
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.Pp
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Maximum mode chooses the highest performance values.
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Minimum mode selects the lowest performance values to get the most power
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savings.
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Adaptive mode attempts to strike a balance by degrading performance when
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the system appears idle and increasing it when the system is busy.
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It offers a good balance between a small performance loss for greatly
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increased power savings.
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Hiadaptive mode is alike adaptive mode, but tuned for systems where
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performance and interactivity are more important then power consumption.
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It rises frequency faster, drops slower and keeps twice lower CPU load.
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The default mode is adaptive for battery power and hiadaptive for the rest.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility recognizes the following runtime options:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Fl r Ar percent"
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.It Fl a Ar mode
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Selects the
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.Ar mode
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to use while on AC power.
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.It Fl b Ar mode
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Selects the
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.Ar mode
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to use while on battery power.
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.It Fl i Ar percent
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Specifies the CPU load percent level when adaptive
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mode should begin to degrade performance to save power.
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The default is 50% or lower.
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.It Fl n Ar mode
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Selects the
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.Ar mode
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to use normally when the AC line state is unknown.
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.It Fl p Ar ival
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Specifies a different polling interval (in milliseconds) for AC line state
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and system idle levels.
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The default is 250 ms.
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.It Fl P Ar pidfile
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Specifies an alternative file in which the process ID should be stored.
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The default is
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.Pa /var/run/powerd.pid .
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.It Fl r Ar percent
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Specifies the CPU load percent level where adaptive
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mode should consider the CPU running and increase performance.
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The default is 75% or higher.
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.It Fl v
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Verbose mode.
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Messages about power changes will be printed to stdout and
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.Nm
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will operate in the foreground.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr acpi 4 ,
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.Xr apm 4 ,
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.Xr cpufreq 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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utility first appeared in
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.Fx 6.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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.An Colin Percival
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first wrote
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.Nm estctrl ,
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the utility that
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.Nm
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is based on.
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.An Nate Lawson
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then updated it for
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.Xr cpufreq 4 ,
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added features, and wrote this manual page.
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Nm
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utility should also power down idle disks and other components besides the CPU.
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.Pp
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If
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.Nm
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is used with
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.Pa power_profile ,
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they may override each other.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility
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should probably use the
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.Xr devctl 4
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interface instead of polling for AC line state.
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