New Hivemind - Powermanagement
I was asked in a comment, if Solaris supports power management with the processor in the HP N36L microserver. The answer is yes. Best way to check this is via kstat. If kstat shows multiple frequencies as supported frequencies, it supports Power Management for the processor:
However before Solaris really uses it, you have to configure powermanagement. At first add or change the following lines in /etc/power.conf
:
Afterwards run the command pmconfig
once. Now keep the system idling for 10 seconds and check the frequencies the system runs at: