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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 23:27:35 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070523231035.20070C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <1359382698.20070523102237@ghirai.com>

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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




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