On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > Since my laptop spends 99% of it's life on non-battery power (plugged > into the wall/UPS), why do I want to throttle my machine so that it > behaves like my old 1998 machine? What is thing doing, being installed > by default? Your comparision is not correct. When there is no CPU load (i.e 90% of usage) - the machine will be at 600MHz. The benefit of this is - lower heat dissipation & low fan noise. But when you start a CPU intensive job - the machine goes to 1600MHz - so no performance loss here.. To speed up the transition - you can use the following in /etc/cpuseed.conf OPTS="-i 1" And also check '/usr/sbin/cpuspeed --help' And to see the transition - insatll gnome-cpufreq-applet pacakge from 'dag' repository. Satish
