CPU frequency went down

[A. Kromic]

On 06/12/10 06:47, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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
>
>
Thank you for your reply.
No it doesn't scale up, it did it normally before (I've actually set it
to ran at full speed on AC). Because most of the time i do hog the CPU,
since it stopped working at full speed I have a really hard time :(

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A.Kromic