[Gllug] Is it me or are the CPUs getting slower?

[Peter Adamson]

John Winters wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 18:51 +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> [snip]
>   
>> For the purposes of this discussion, "ps auxww | grep cpuspeed" should
>> tell you if that's the problem.
>>     
>
> No, don't have one of those, but I do have something called "powernowd"
> running, and the man page for that seems to indicate that it is likely
> to do the same sort of thing.
>   
Yes it does.
I've been fiddling around in this area on my laptop.
(amd64 3000+)

It's got 3 modes:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.0)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
(You should get this from dmesg).

You might be interested in:
http://www.tuxamito.com.es/cpupw/
It undervolts your cpu.
I've knocked 200mV off all 3 speeds, now my laptop cpu doesn't go above 
60C (it was ~80C at full pelt)...
> Thanks to all - this Linux thing is getting too sophisticated for me
> (but I like the Ubuntu installer).
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>   

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