Managing CPU throttling

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:08:17AM -0500, kaput wrote:

> 
> I was very impressed to see that Ubuntu supports dynamic CPU throttling
> "out of the box" on my P4 Toshiba notebook. 
> 
> However, I would like to be able to have a little more control over
> throttling. For example, when running Tribes 2, the engine recognizes
> that the CPU is running at 1200 mhz. The problem is after the engine is
> started, the CPU jumps to 2200, which causes the engine to start running
> too fast.

If you shut down powernowd, the CPU should run at a constant speed.
However, in addition to this workaround, I suggest reporting this as a bug
to the authors of the program, since they should not base this kind of
calculation on the clock speed.

-- 
 - mdz