CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass at gmx.com
Fri May 22 07:34:21 UTC 2015


Hi,

I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping
below 1200MHz. It used to be able to go down to 150MHz, if I am
not mistaken. I'd like it to go down to 600MHz via powerd, like
it used to go. This is a month's old 10-STABLE.

> [nik at moby ~]$ sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2400/35000 2300/32872 2200/31127 2100/29417 2000/27740 1900/26096 1800/24490 1700/22588 1600/21045 1500/19534 1400/18055 1300/16611 1200/15194

This is the CPU:
 > hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz

Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Nikos




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