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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:30:49 +0800
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,

Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> why don't you use powerd?
> 
> Now I know a reason. It made my whole computer freeze and C-ALT-DEL or 
> C-ALT-BS didn't even work. Maybe it's not that stable yet.

I use it with the -v option without any problems.

I do not start it while booting the machine but start it later after 
loggin on as root.

This way I can always switch back and see how fast the CPU currently runs.

Erich