[ltp] cpu MHz & TP-T30 & FC3

Satish Balay linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:30:12 -0600 (CST)


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, morpheus wrote:

> Yes, but I would avoid using killall in this way, since if you have
> other processes with "cpuspeed" in their names, they will also be sent
> the signal. 

killall doesn't do partial string match - so no such problem exists..
And its a useful interface if you still want to use cpuseed daemon for
other reasons.

I guess one could switchoff cpuspeed and access
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq directly if the requirements are
minimal.

Satish