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#1 2006-02-10 01:42:23
- viniosity
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working below max speed when plugged in
My laptop is currently plugged in and I'm working it pretty hard. Still, my e17 cpu monitor is showing it at 1.2GHz which is below the max of 1.5 it's capable of. I'm working on AC so would naturally assume that it would peg the processor if it could. Any idea why it's not?
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#2 2006-02-10 08:17:53
- demonus
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Re: working below max speed when plugged in
are you running cpufreqd/powersaved?
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#3 2006-02-10 14:27:08
- viniosity
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Re: working below max speed when plugged in
I am.. I thought I needed it for suspend to ram but I'm using the hibernate-scripts instead. Should I unload it?
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#4 2006-02-10 16:35:06
- phrakture
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Re: working below max speed when plugged in
I would suggest using the cpufreq subsystem itself instead of userspace tools for it. pacman -S cpufrequtils and edit /etc/conf.d/cpufreq. Set the min/max frequencies and select a governor (I use ondemand).
It might be interesting to handle ac adapter acpi events and set things to lower settings as part of that package... hmm, think I'll work on that, I like the idea.
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