Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:16:13 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to find current cpu speed & utilization Message-ID: <643249519.20070629141613@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90706281317r203aba82s5b6391123a71d554@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90706281317r203aba82s5b6391123a71d554@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello Steve, Thursday, June 28, 2007, 11:17:45 PM, you wrote: > I've been playing with powerd, and my system seems mighty sluggish. I > can't find anything in the manpages about how to get current metrics > on the cpu. powerd is just a daemon, acpi and cpufreq are drivers, > acpiconf just puts it to sleep, what am I missing? > Steve Check man cpufreq, i had the same problem because powerd lowered the freq. to 100MHz and KDE moved sluggish. I set the minimum to 500MHz, which seems to work just fine. You would use sysctl to see the current freq, and you set the minimum freq. in /etc/sysctl.conf. Check the manpage. -- Best regards, Ghirai.
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