Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 00:12:10 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebook cpu throttling Message-ID: <20070521221210.GA99691@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1897036871.20070522005608@ghirai.com> References: <634772431.20070521215222@ghirai.com> <20070521200813.GB95817@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <1897036871.20070522005608@ghirai.com>
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--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: > >> Hello list, > >>=20 > >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a > >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). > >>=20 > >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, > >> which makes the fan start quite often. > >>=20 > >> Is there any way to fix this? >=20 > > You need to do three things (as root); >=20 > > 1) Load the cpufreq module 'kldload cpufreq'. > > 2) Put 'powerd_enable=3D"YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf > > 2) Start powerd: '/etc/rc.d/powerd start' >=20 > > Roland >=20 > Thanks for the hint. >=20 > I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU. That's a lot. Are you doing anything to make it work hard? Such a constantly high CPU usage is not normal, IMHO. Unless you're doing something wacky like running xearth or xlock on your root window. > CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, > because of the xorg cpu usage. You can try to renice(8) the X server. That might make it less jerky. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGUhk6EnfvsMMhpyURAmDjAJ968mbCStnw1lax7dMOpEzS9P1TPACdFrwa RKounpkW8eq9C7NTuBmxyOA= =PPDj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--
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