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From: Florian Unglaub <ueber@roladder.net>
To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:
> Works here on an i5, amd64:
>
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 5801/300000 5800/300000
>
> I found this by accident, noticing only that a buildworld suddenly was a
> lot faster when powerd was running.
>
> powerd_enable="YES"
> powerd_flags="-a hadp -n hadp"
> performance_cpu_freq="HIGH"

I tried it with your powerd flags and the performance_cpu_freq setting
on HIGH, but still the maximum freq_levels entry is 2800.

Florian