Re: clockspeed and laptop/powersave cpu's

John Peacock <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:06:22 -0500
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Paul Jarc wrote:

> Sven <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>But I am not sure if clockspeed will work reliable on the
>>cpu's which are able to scale down the cpu clock to save
>>energy.
> 
> 
> When switching between CPU speeds, you could stop clockspeed, swap out
> the etc/atto file (keep one version for each CPU speed), and then
> restart clockspeed.

No, the computers that do this adjust the CPU speed depending on actual activity 
(I believe).  I think that clockspeed just won't be effective in this case.  You 
could just run a cron job to reset the time on some schedule.

John

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