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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:15:15 +0100
From:      Mark <admin@asarian-host.net>
To:        "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management
Message-ID:  <200301091915.H09JFUJ16660@asarian-host.net>
References:  <20030108232002.G61746-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> <20030109085442.GA10394@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management


> Try the ports/sysutils/fvcool port ---
> http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/
>
> Using it has cut the average CPU temperature on my system from
> about 70C to about 50C.

It looked interesting; so I checked it out. Then it turns out this
power-safe mode on your AMD CPU is disabled by default for a good reason: it
makes your system unstable, and/or causes it to hang. Then cool is suddenly
not so cool anymore. :(

- Mark


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