CPU frequency went down

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 02:45 +0100, A. Kromic wrote:
> On 04/12/10 01:07, A. Kromic wrote:
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > Some time ago I got this problem, my CPU won't set its full frequency
> > anymore, to be more precise it works at the lowest frequency and doesn't
> > allow it to be changed. I've tried setting it by different means, from
> > several frequency-setting daemons, to command line tools, to gnome
> > applet and finally to directly trying to set it by writing to sysfs, but
> > nothing does work. Until before a few months, everything worked fine.
> >
> > I have no idea where to look, what logs should I check, which system
> > component could be responsible for this error?
> >
> > My machine is ThinkPad R61i, CPU is Pentium DC 1.6G (lowest speed 800M,
> > that's what I have now...) OS is Ubuntu Lucid (10.04LTS).
> >
> > I'd really appreciate any advice to set me on the right path. Thanks
> >
> 
> Just to add, architecture is amd64.
> 
> Any ideas? Anybody?

Run a few memory/cpu hog programs and see if the cpu speed does or
doesn't scale up. It's a feature, not a bug ...or so I've been told. 
:) Ric


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