Robert Campbell wrote: > The release notes for 5.7 included under the assorted improvements this > line item: > > "Frequency scaling has been moved from apmd(8) to the kernel with an > improved algorithm." > > Does this mean my CPU's frequency is being scaled automatically? Is there > any reason to run apud -A for example? I'm a little confused because > running apm with near idle CPU load always shows:
the kernel only scales the frequency when asked to (via apm/apmd -A). otherwise the frequency is still fixed, either high or low (if you use apm -H or apm -L), or to some other value (via sysctl hw.setperf).
