CPU Frequency Monitor Question

Jonathan Lim ubuntu at snowblink.co.uk
Sat Feb 19 08:42:42 UTC 2005


On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Sebastian Müsch wrote:
> 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.

Interesting. I went with powernowd as it came with a default install.
Does cpufreqd offer some benefit?

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