Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> why don't you use powerd?
> 
> Now I know a reason. It made my whole computer freeze and C-ALT-DEL or 
> C-ALT-BS didn't even work. Maybe it's not that stable yet.

I use it with the -v option without any problems.

I do not start it while booting the machine but start it later after 
loggin on as root.

This way I can always switch back and see how fast the CPU currently runs.

Erich