<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Sebastian Msch wrote: <blockquote cite="midBE3CB380.C86E%25sebastian@sebastian-muesch.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, justin williams wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Anyone have an idea as to why it is doing this...or what it means actually? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. cu Sebastian </pre> </blockquote> Sebastian... Thank you so much for that wonderful and very detailed explanation. I was worried my cpu was fsck up. ;) It all makes sense now. Namo Dharma, Justin Williams </body> </html>