<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>i guess i dont know what frequency scaling means then!i thought it was somthing to do with cpu loads! <HR id=stopSpelling> > From: alan@popey.com > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:47:44 +0000 > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] pc frequency monitoring thing in taskbar > > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 11:28 +0000, STONE COLD wrote: > > ok so its not reliable...ill set it up in frequency! > > > > is there an alternative to this app? > > > > I don't think it's unreliable. It's just not showing information that > you might find easy to digest. > > If you right click the applet you can change it from showing percentage > to the actual CPU speed. For example my laptop has a 2GHz dual-core > Intel CPU. I have two panel icons, one for each core (CPU0 and CPU1). > They generally both sit at 1GHz (50%), but when my machine is busy they > can either (or both) go up to 2GHz (100%). This is all perfectly normal > for laptops and desktops. > > Not all CPUs support frequency scaling, many do though. > > Cheers, > Al. </body> </html>