[ltp] Re: What's cutting my CPU speed in half?

Igor V. Rafienko linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:01:43 +0100 (MET)


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on Nov 17, 2006, 14:00, John Sullivan wrote:

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> A few people have recommended this, and I tried it -- I set all available
> options to Maximum Performance. I still only got 50% of my CPU speed when=
 I
> booted on battery power.


Which governor are you using? What are scaling_max_freq/scaling_min_freq?=
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Any other daemons groping these values?


> What are people doing with the "Intel SpeedStep" setting in the BIOS?


Enabling it and puting AC performance on "max".

As someone else has already mentioned:

1) which governor are you using?
2) what are scaling_max_freq and scaling_min_freq?
3) is there any other piece of software that gropes these values?





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