CPU Frequency Monitor Question

justin williams justin at justinchrist.com
Sat Feb 19 08:19:14 UTC 2005


Sebastian Msch wrote:

>Hi,
>
>justin williams wrote:
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>>Anyone have an idea as to why it is doing this...or what it means actually?
>>    
>>
>
>The CPU-Load is monitored by a tool called cpufreq. When there's nothing to
>do for the CPU, cpufreq puts your cpu in a powersave mode by scaling down
>the core frequency, to save energy. If the system is heavy loaded again,
>cpufreq set your cpu on full-speed.
>The Poll interval is by default set to 2 seconds ;-)
>
>If you want to review the policies and maybe change them, take a look at the
>file /etc/cpufreqd.conf it's quite easy to understand it's syntax.
>
>cu
>Sebastian
>
>  
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Sebastian...

Thank you so much for that wonderful and very detailed explanation. I 
was worried my cpu was  fsck  up. ;) It all makes sense now.

Namo Dharma,
Justin Williams
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