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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:43:19 +0200
From:      Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com>
To:        Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle
Message-ID:  <20080121194319.15a718ea.ghirai@ghirai.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:41:41 +0100 (CET)
Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> wrote:

> 
> Hmmmm. This actually works, without any hangups. I wonder if I managed 
> to hit upon a odd bug yesterday?
> 
> /andreas
> 

I've been using it since 6.2 on 4 intel boxes (one of them a notebook)
without any problems.

You can check the available freq. steps with sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels
and see the current speed with sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq.

Do make sure you set the debug.cpufreq.lowest to a sensible value, otherwise
things will be somewhat sluggish.

-- 
Regards,
Ghirai.



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