sysctl debug.cpufreq.highest

Alexander Kojevnikov alexander at kojevnikov.com
Wed Oct 6 02:02:59 UTC 2010


Are there plans to add debug.cpufreq.highest support into CURRENT and
eventually into 8-STABLE?

Corresponding patches [0] have been available since Nov 2008 [1] and
they work pretty well.

This variable allows to underclock the CPU, which is useful when
building quiet or low-power systems.

[0] http://acm.poly.edu/~spawk/cpufreq/
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-November/000316.html


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