Two things come to mind here, first most bios have a group of power management features which are configurable, make sure those features are set properly (disabled). second, Your OS should have power management options as well. The features in windows seem a bit limited for directly addressing cpu speed but under Linux the processor speed is directly settable. The top 6 hits here<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%253Aen-US%253Aofficial&hs=8tW&q=disable+cpu+frequency+scaling&btnG=Search>all discuss this and give rather direct solutions.
Eric On 1/4/08, Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I moved my NTP server to my old Athlon XP desktop running Windows XP > and quickly noticed the effect the CPU power save feature had on NTP. > Once the CPU started ramping down from 2GHz to wherever it lands when > it's done the NTP offsets would hit over a second. I installed > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to keep the processor frequency at the > maximum speed and everything has been just peachy with NTP. My > question is this, does anyone have a way to switch off the power save > feature the CPU is using so I don't have to run my machine full tilt? > > Thanks all! > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
