On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:16, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > Try running powerd with a 5000 ms polling interval. With the default > > > of 500 ms, it never seems to stabilize, but keeps oscillating wildly > > > in the 75-300 MHz range on my Dell Latitude D600. > > > > That is bad for performance. It can then take up to 10-15 seconds to > > promote back to 100% CPU when your system becomes busy. > > It's not as bad for performance as me tossing the laptop out the > window in frustration because powerd keeps changing the CPU frequency > and the system freezes for just a moment every time it does.
Pretty odd the system freezes with a frequency change! I have an Inspiron 8600 and I don't see that behaviour.. Although I do get hitches reading temperature and battery info :( Tried a newer BIOS? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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