Thread: Switching SmartReflex on the fly?
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2012-02-07 , 17:01
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Originally Posted by magick777 View Post

5. Running at 500/900 is fast, but, it's a fairly conservative improvement on the 500/805 that I was running before. Testing with 500/1100 feels really sleek - I really want this, and I accept full well that it's not optimal for battery life or (possibly) for device lifetime. I remain interested in achieving this on a transient, as-needed basis. In doing so, I'm also seeking to mitigate the impact on battery life by applying this on an as-needed basis, and should add some kind of safeguard against remaining in 1100MHz mode for too long in case of constant loading. What else am I not aware of?
What you could do is load your system to the max (play a movie with mplayer and force it to scale to video output or something), lock to each frequency you want to record then write down what smart reflex chooses as a voltage for each frequency. Thus you could use some relatively sane voltages and just guess for the ones outside the SR range (1000MHz etc). This would allow you to PERHAPS create a voltage under clock profile that is safe for your device that will go up to 1000MHz. Although I think it should be said it really can not recommended to push the processor so hard without adequate cooling.

Originally Posted by magick777 View Post
6. Does the proposed benefit of this come from the assumption that the microSD card is fundamentally faster than the eMMC (not sure mine is), or from the fact that it is a separate device? I'm not filled with confidence by this thread either, is there a material benefit to this?
No, the uSD is slower than the eMMC, however you are not competing with your programs to read/write to it. Thus cuts down IO collisions. Thus swap can run uninterrupted. Yippee!

I will answer more later.
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