On 01/25/2006 01:22 PM, Robert Tsai wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:49:41AM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > >> how "safe" is letting the CPU change its speed? will it affect how >> applications run or is it seamless? >> > > I've been running my machine in this configuration for about a year > with no problems. > > By default, the CPU will speed up to whatever is demanded of it. You > can also configure cpufreq-ondemand to ignore "niced" processes, so > that niced processes won't cause the CPU to speed up. Obviously, the > side effect is that these niced CPU-intensive processes run slower. > Make sure, though, that you're running a relatively recent kernel. Older kernels tend to lack full/proper support for "notifiers" (i.e. telling things--like timing code--that the CPU frequency has changed) so changing the frequency will likely cause problems.
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