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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle
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Hi,

why don't you use powerd?

Erich

Andreas Davour wrote:
> 
> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to 
> lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason 
> it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug 
> output.
> 
> Anyone have tried to do something similar?
> 
> /Andreas
>