Processor Scaling

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 21:09 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 04:29 +0000, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> sudo cpufreq-selector -g performance
> >>     
> >
> > If you are running the Gnome desktop, you can set the processor speed in
> > the CPU frequency scaling applet.  Just left click on the applet after
> > you put it in a panel.
> >   
> Not unless you run another command first to tell the applet it has root 
> privileges. I followed a link to instructions for that from someone in 
> this thread, and now have been able to use the applet to set my cpu to 
> 2000mhz, which is near it's top speed of 2100 mhz, and things are 
> responding much more quickly now.

Interesting.  I did not have to do that on my desktop.  The applet
worked out of the box for me.
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