On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 14:09, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > No, powernowd is a just userspace client deamon much like cpufreqd > (which I happen to be using). Both interact with the sysfs interface. > Your Ubuntu system likely already runs with a modern kernel-level > scaling power governor, i.e. on my 10.04 I can observe it's presence > here: > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Yes, I am running on 10.04 and yes, I have that too. And I have Intel-Processors. > If your CPU support PowerNow, Cool n' Quiet and whatever the CPU > manufacturer call their speed-stepping tech, you would be able to > inspect this with: > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/scaling_available_freq discovered typo - should be: sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies > ...(where x is your core no). My Core II 6550 reports capable of > throttling at 2670000 2336000 and 2003000 KHz (and is usually running > at 2003000 KHz during a development session using the kernel on-demand > governor). I also have several values there. Thank you. > So anyway, I would not use userspace deamons for this - I get reminded > of Windows bloatware. Agree. Thank you very much for your explanations again! -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
