Warming and CPU work % above normal(comparing to Fedora Linux).SpeedStep not working?

[Ivan Klymenko]

В Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:15:20 +0100
Luca Renaud <renaud.luca at gmail.com> пишет:

> Comparing my FreeBSD8 and FedoraLinux12 systems (both using KDE and
> running on the same computer Dell netbook) I notice on the Bottom bar
> monitoring CPU graph that the CPU under FreeBSD8 is in average 40%
> above the FedoraLinux12 -comparison for the exactly same type of
> computing tasks-.The warming of the netbook for
> example,after 1 hour running is clearly higher with FreeBSD8 than with
> FedoraLinux12.
> Is this SpeedStep not running on one system and running on the
> other,or is there something configurable on
> FreeBSD which must be done manually and it is not done automatically
> to approximate the charge on the CPU
> under FreeBSD to the FedoraLinux?
> 
> 
>  Thanks.
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Maybe you need to add in /etc/rc.conf something like
powerd_enable="YES"
powerd_flags="-a hiadaptive -b adaptive -p 100"