Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
V.I.Victor wrote: I was wondering about the truth-of-clockspeed. Perhaps the 1800-MHz only applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while the external bus-clocking is down at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a typical marketing ploy! About disabling the ACPI... Can I do it *safely* via the

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Manolis Kiagias wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I was wondering about the truth-of-clockspeed. Perhaps the 1800-MHz only applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while the external bus-clocking is down at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a typical

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread V.I.Victor
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread V.I.Victor
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Manolis Kiagias wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I was wondering about the truth-of-clockspeed. Perhaps the 1800-MHz only applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while the external bus-clocking is down at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a typical marketing ploy! About disabling the

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread V.I.Victor
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded. Box_A: CPU: AMD-K7(tm)

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded. Box_A: CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (598.84-MHz 686-class CPU)

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread V.I.Victor
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise

ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread V.I.Victor
I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded. Box_A: CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (598.84-MHz 686-class CPU) avail memory =