Warren Togami wrote: > My 1.6GHz Pentium M based IBM Thinkpad T41 runs at the minimum 600MHz > most of the time because the processor is mostly idle. The cpuspeed > service monitors CPU usage, and kicks it up to the higher levels if it > is needed. If I am building something large on my laptop, cpuspeed > kicks it up to 1.6GHz. My battery gets eaten much faster, temperatures > rise, and the fan blows at full speed. > > If you really don't want cpuspeed to manage your processor, you can > disable it with: > service cpuspeed stop > chkconfig cpuspeed off > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > Use this to verify your current speed and processor features.
Is this true regardless of whether you are running on battery or plugged-in?
(the T41 is a slick laptop, btw)
Thanks, Steven Garrity
