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Date:      Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:44:14 +0200
From:      "Markus D." <sm4tnp8@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: system power profile
Message-ID:  <3F328FEE.90903@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030807163525.131BA5D08@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20030807163525.131BA5D08@ptavv.es.net>

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On my laptop (IPC Highnote S15) I even notice a whistling sound from the 
power supply area if it is throttling the CPU.

Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> But don't assume that the CPU is actually changing in response to the
> change. I have seen multiple reports that some (many...all) systems
> don't actually change CPU speed when this changes.
> 
> I use gkrellm's gkx86info plug-in to monitor the CPU speed. The speed
> on my system (and others from multiple vendors) is set by power status
> at boot time and never changes until the system is re-booted. this is
> true for both ACPI and APM.



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