Re[4]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ghirai
Hello Ian, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 4:27:35 PM, you wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Ghirai wrote: >> > I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself It's an amilo pro v3205, the size of an A4 paper, 1.8 KG. This is the CPU (reasonably cheap, worth the money IMO): CPU: Intel(R) C

Re: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Ghirai wrote: > > I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself, so I'm > > still keen to see your 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' please? > Ok, i think i got it working. > > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels showed about 14 possibilities. Would you care to cut'n'pa

Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ghirai
> [..] >> >> I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU. >> >> >> >> CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, >> >> because of the xorg cpu usage. > [..] >> > Point being, if powerd has selected your lowest cpu frequency because >> > load is less than default (

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 May 2007 19:35:10 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > >> I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU. > >> > >> CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, > >> because of the xorg cpu usage. [..] > > Point being, if powerd has selected your lo

Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ghirai
Hello Ian, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 5:08:19 PM, you wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:56:08 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Roland, >> >> Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:08:13 PM, you wrote: >> >> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:52:22PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> >

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:56:08 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Roland, > > Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:08:13 PM, you wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:52:22PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a > >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo P

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:23:02AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: > > That's a lot. Are you doing anything to make it work hard? Such a > > constantly high CPU usage is not normal, IMHO. Unless you're doing > > something wacky like running xearth or xlock on your root window. > > > You can try to renice(8)

Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Ghirai
Hello Roland, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 1:12:10 AM, you wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> >> >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a >> >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). >> >> >> >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling,

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a > >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). > >> > >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, > >> which makes the fan start quite often. > >> > >> Is there any wa

Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Ghirai
Hello Roland, Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:08:13 PM, you wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:52:22PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). >> >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, >> which makes the

notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Ghirai
Hello list, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, which makes the fan start quite often. Is there any way to fix this? Any hints appreciated. -- Best regards, Ghirai. __