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 -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748