From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 18:31:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253AF106564A for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C364E8FC28 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:31:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:61991 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JpShs-0003gq-5y for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:31:37 +0200 Received: (qmail 39618 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2008 20:31:33 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 25 Apr 2008 20:31:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 99634 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Apr 2008 20:31:33 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:31:33 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "A. Hamilton-Wright" Message-ID: <20080425183133.GA99525@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: "A. Hamilton-Wright" , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JpShs-0003gq-5y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JpShs-0003gq-5y a367c6bed5339fc6273150d6b03f55bd Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU throttling on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:31:38 -0000 On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:31:30PM -0300, A. Hamilton-Wright wrote: > > Does anyone on this list know the state of any userland > control tools for CPU throttling on the amd64 platform? > > I see in the archives that there was little functionality > in this are as of 2004, and then substantial work in 2005 > to make cpufreq available through sysctl. > > At that time there is a thread indicating how nice it would > be if someone wrote a daemon to do the control for this a la > cpufreqd > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-February/003524.html > > I cannot seem to find anything relating to throttling and > or AMD Cool&Quiet after that point. Is there such a daemon? > > Thanks for any pointers, > Andrew. > You mean something like powerd(8) ? -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se