Managing CPU throttling

[Noah Dain]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:04:35 +1100, Adam Membrey
<membreya at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Noah Dain wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:41:10 +1100, Adam Membrey
> ><membreya at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Blackomegax: from the console type sudo apt-get install emifreqd-applet
> >>
> >>this applet provides cpu throttling control.
> >>
> >>Once you have installed it right click on your gnome panel and add the applet :)
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>"what would be awsome is a toolbar addin like the freq monitor already
> >>there...except with profiles like speedswitchXP does.
> >>
> >>aka. right click and select "max battery", and a p-m will lock itself
> >>at the lowest clock and stay there
> >>"max performance" and it locks itself at the highest clock
> >>"auto" for normal scaling
> >>
> >>throw in ac/batt detection for auto profile switching, and custom
> >>profiles (like limit batt scaling to 1.0 ghz in p-m) and it'd kick
> >>ass...
> >>
> >>--
> >>blackomegax"
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >cool! but ...
> >
> >after manually setting the cpu to something below maximum, it only
> >gives the option of going back up to 1200 MHz, and I've a 1300MHz
> >processor.
> >
> >But, I can still set it to maximum speed manually.
> >
> >
> >
> Noah,
>     Is this on a laptop or a desktop? what does dmesg give you for CPU
> speeds?
> 
laptop, pentium-m 1300.  It's a shortcoming of the current hoary
version (.17?).  The latest version adds some entries to the menu to
allow for full speed.

I grabbed the .18 emifreqd-applet source and copied the debian build
directory from the hoary .17 source, tinkered a little bit and
produced a binary deb.

http://sysgendata.com/ndain/files/emifreq-applet_0.18-00001_i386.deb

I wasn't sure  what to put for the build number, so I opted for lots
of zeros to make it stick out.

-- 
Noah Dain
noahdain at gmail.com