From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 11:51:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 1BE2A16A468 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:51:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from p28.ich-19.com (fa.ea.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.234.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCFC13C468 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from [89.122.158.202] (helo=Unknown-00-16-36-ae-62-05.lan) by p28.ich-19.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I4ETC-0005pg-9c; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:16:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:16:13 +0300 From: Ghirai X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.99.3) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <643249519.20070629141613@ghirai.com> To: "Steve Franks" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <539c60b90706281317r203aba82s5b6391123a71d554@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90706281317r203aba82s5b6391123a71d554@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - p28.ich-19.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ghirai.com Cc: Subject: Re: how to find current cpu speed & utilization X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ghirai List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:51:35 -0000 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.