on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:08:40PM +0100, Alexander Clouter (alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk) wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a > > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip? > > > > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed > > changes resulting from power source switching. > > > isn't there an option in the bios to banish this 'feature'? I remember > there being reference to this in a couple of places. Once disabled I > guess you could solely use 'CPU Idle' calls to cool your cpu, which I > assume has the same *effect*. There is. I've set CPU speed to "maximum" (forget the precise opts, believe they're max, min, auto, reverse). System's been up for 19 hours w/o problems, previously I was lucky to get an hour. Note also that SpeedStep is probably more useful under an OS which doesn't have preemptive multitasking. My understanding of Win9X/ME was that it ran at full tilt unless specifically idled, this information coming from VMWare experiences. NT/2K and GNU/Linux have an idle cycle which actually idles the CPU. What's the CPU Idle call you're referringn to? Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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