warning messages?

[Derek Ragona]

At 02:00 PM 1/29/2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3 on my machine. I keep seeing these messages
>
>cpu0: Cx states changed
>cpu1: Cx states changed
>
>in somewhat random intervals, specially at startup. What are they?
>Should I be worried? Thanks
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You CPU is changing states as part of power management/thermal 
management.  There are sysctl variables to set these values if you don't 
want the state to change, or to control is finer.

Look at your dmesg output for how many states your CPU supports.

         -Derek

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