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> 
> Throttling does step back the effective CPU speed by triggering the CPU
> clock at some fraction of the actual clock.  See a previous post I made
> for more techical details.  As Bruno said, you have a mobile athlon and so
> powernow or acpi performance states will provide clock/voltage control.  I
> haven't finished the drivers for that for FreeBSD yet but his driver
> should help you if you want to try it.  Clock/voltage control is similar
> but different than throttling.
> 
> -Nate
>

thanks for explaination. that clarified something to me. i tried out bruno's
driver and it worked good for me so far. thx@bruno, too. it's absolutely great
how fast you get help here

thx a lot to everyone

-cu