notebook cpu throttling

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
> >> Hello list,
> >> 
> >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a
> >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo).
> >> 
> >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling,
> >> which makes the fan start quite often.
> >> 
> >> Is there any way to fix this?
> 
> > You need to do three things (as root);
> 
> > 1) Load the cpufreq module 'kldload cpufreq'.
> > 2) Put 'powerd_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf
> > 2) Start powerd: '/etc/rc.d/powerd start'
> 
> > Roland
> 
> Thanks for the hint.
> 
> I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU.

That's a lot. Are you doing anything to make it work hard? Such a
constantly high CPU usage is not normal, IMHO. Unless you're doing
something wacky like running xearth or xlock on your root window.

> CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky,
> because of the xorg cpu usage.

You can try to renice(8) the X server. That might make it less jerky.

Roland
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