EST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep(R) Technology) on amd64

[Nate Lawson]

Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
> My processor seems correctly recognized by est under 7.1, I get the
> correct frequency/value pairs. What I would like is the automatic
> behaviour where the CPU is downclocked to 50% under no load, found
> under Windows/Linux and I would also like to know why estctrl isn't
> supported under amd64. I already contacted Colin. :)

powerd(8) is what you want. You can set an absolute frequency for idle.

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Nate