NetBSD on Intel N100
Jukka Marin <[email protected]>
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Hello, After (too) many years, I'd like to start using NetBSD again (as the l* OS is becoming more and more bloated and has security issues every now and then). I have tried 10.1 and 11 on a mini-PC with Intel N100 CPU. NetBSD runs well and I was able to install pfSense in a virtual machine without problems, but then I noticed that the system was running a bit slow. I believe the reason is that the CPU clock is fixed at 800 MHz although the CPU supports turbo modes up to 2-3 GHz. Here's what sysctl says: machdep.cpu.frequency.target = 801 machdep.cpu.frequency.current = 801 machdep.cpu.frequency.available = 801 800 700 So, no higher frequencies than 800 MHz are available. I tried disabling ACPI stuff in BIOS, but nothing changed. Under l*, the CPU clock goes up to around 3 GHz under load and to 600 or 700 MHz when the system is idle. Is there something I could do to make dynamic clock speed working? I tested OpenBSD as well, but it had the same problem. Thank you! -jm