Pentium III / i815 - powersaving possible?

Peter Ganzhorn peter.ganzhorn at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 23 14:51:43 PDT 2007


Hi there,

in order to get a temporary fileserver running at home, I "reactivated" 
an old Pentium III on a i815-based board.
Combined with a gigabit NIC this box works perfectly as a file server, 
but I wondered if there is a way to reduce the power consumption of this 
box when running.
Even for earlier Intel chipsets (e.g. the 440BX) there are CPUfreq 
drivers available in the kernel, but I wasn't able to find any driver 
suitable for the i815.
Is there a CPUfreq driver that can save me some power on this box?
AFAIK it does not support C-states at all, so this is the only way I can 
think of to save some power.

Peter



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