Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:31 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Krzysztof Kowalik <kkowalik@uci.agh.edu.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current is sluggish Message-ID: <43ED3423.5060500@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060211003846.GA153@uci.agh.edu.pl> References: <43ED294A.2050505@savvis.net> <200602110128.50618.max@love2party.net> <20060211003846.GA153@uci.agh.edu.pl>
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Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: > Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote: >> I see it too, but only when the laptop is sitting idle for a while and powerd >> scaled down to 75Mhz. You can try to put some load on it (e.g. yes(1)) and >> see if that improves things. > > Speaking of which, it would be nice to be able to tell powerd not to > slow the CPU down below the certain limit -- 75MHz causes annoying > issues, like X-based applications (psi, xterm) missing key presses, > when I'm typing fast. ;) I think debug.cpufreq.lowest is what you want. It is documented in cpufreq(4): "Lowest CPU frequency in MHz to offer to users. This setting is also accessible via a tunable with the same name. This can be used to disable very low levels that may be unusable on some systems." -Jonathan
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