Systems running hot?

[Michal Varga]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Backman <serenity at exscape.org> wrote:
>> This is from latest 7.2. Were there any changes in 8/9-CURRENT to
>> bring some love to Phenoms too?
>
> I have little to no experience with power saving in *nix, but have you made sure the BIOS settings support throttling etc.?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas

Yes, there is only Cool'n'Quiet to be enabled and that has been on for
ages. Though to really make sure, I dug up a Windows install and found
a power mon. app on AMD's site, results are as expected:

http://i45.tinypic.com/qsrqdv.png

Even per-core throttling seems to work fine there.

m.