Re: Turion 64 cpufreq

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

Erle Pereira <debian@erlepereira.com> writes:

> True, It does switch, but I find with the _ondemand setting, its
> switches faster ( I remember reading somewhere that the athlon/turion
> can switch states 30 times/sec .. battery power!)

Okay, thanks for the clarification.  Maybe I should give this a try.

I saw in the recent DWN this "powertop" package.  I didn't check into
it carefully, but its supposed to help identify power hogs.

http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/powertop

> btw: I use  the 'cpu scaling applet' which I assume is the same thing we
> are talking about, else I need to look at my repo again :)

Yes, I think we are talking about the same thing.  Author, Carlos
Garcia Campos.

Cheers,
-Brett.