CPU throttling

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Apr 8 18:37:15 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:13:05AM -0700, Graham North wrote:
> ACPI Advice  CPU freq management are kind of new to me and I will be 
> setting up a brand new motherboard with a sempron 3100+ which has power 
> throttling capabilities.   I want to capture this if possible - CPU 
> throttling was a key  factor in its choice.
> 
> I intend to install as i386 initially.   Do I need to load any specific 
> drivers in order to enable AMD's on-chip power management?  Can someone 
> tell me what is built into the kernel and/or what needs to be added?  I 
> believe that ACPI  is part of the kernel?  Does it just auto-detect and 
> provide a "ready to run - right out of the box"?   Is it worth waiting a 
> couple of weeks for 6.1 to be released or are these features solid 
> already in an updated 6.0?

"device cpufreq" in kernel and powerd_enable="YES" in rc.conf

It's worth using 6.1 on general grounds, but this support has been in
6.x for some time.

Kris
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