On January 3, 2005 10:28 pm, Satish Balay wrote: > 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 FWIW, I found that cpuspeed did not *ever* increase the speed of my cpu to a satisfactory speed. It was always slow as molasses, regardless of load, etc. I eventually found out that it was cpuspeed that was the culprit, killed it and was immediately happy with the speed. But this left things running at full speed *at all times* and produced lots of heat so I took someone's advice (from this list) and downloaded "powernowd" (sorry, can't recall the link; try google) and *it* works as advertised, unlike cpuspeed (at least on my machine) and actually throttles the cpu speed up and down, according to usage. -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx public key | http://www.haligonian.com/pgp/
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