On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:32 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > However, I see only the cpuspeeds (5 of them) displayed by: > > > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies > > > So why are there 8 throttle settings? What setting would give me no > > > throttling? It is a mystery. > > > > > You may want to read the documentation in Documentation/cpu-freq in > > the kernel docs. It covers this. A lot of how you can set things > > depends on the "governor" you select to control CPU speed. For your > > use, you should probably select "performance". > > I will probbably regret asking this, but where do you find: > Documentation/cpu-freq > What kernel docs are you referring to? Documentation directory in the kernel source tree. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================