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

Gabriel Lavoie glavoie at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 18:40:08 UTC 2009


Using debug.cpufreq.lowest?

2009/1/9 Nate Lawson <nate at root.org>:
> 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.
>
> --
> Nate
>



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