From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 13:41:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A8416A41F for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 13:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F8A13C484 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 13:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.5) with SMTP id XAA27681; Wed, 23 May 2007 23:27:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 23:27:35 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Ghirai In-Reply-To: <1359382698.20070523102237@ghirai.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved] 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: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:41:05 -0000 On Wed, 23 May 2007, Ghirai wrote: > > I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself, so I'm > > still keen to see your 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' please? > Ok, i think i got it working. > > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels showed about 14 possibilities. Would you care to cut'n'paste that result here, just for interest? > It turned out that powerd was lowering it down to 100MHz, > or 50MHz per core. > > Playing with debug.cpufreq.lowest, i increased it gradually > until KDE/Xorg behaved normal; for my system it was 800MHz, > which is 400MHz/core. I don't understand figuring it as half frequency per core, but I've not run an SMP box myself. As long as it works fine for you, that's great. Cheers, Ian