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Date:      Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:51:52 -0800
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep(R) Technology) on amd64
Message-ID:  <496780A8.7070801@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <d05df8620901090357h24c407aeo8e489faab6e016ca@mail.gmail.com>
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Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
> My processor seems correctly recognized by est under 7.1, I get the
> correct frequency/value pairs. What I would like is the automatic
> behaviour where the CPU is downclocked to 50% under no load, found
> under Windows/Linux and I would also like to know why estctrl isn't
> supported under amd64. I already contacted Colin. :)

powerd(8) is what you want. You can set an absolute frequency for idle.

-- 
Nate



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