cpu running half speed on FC2

[Steven Garrity]

Warren Togami wrote:
 > My 1.6GHz Pentium M based IBM Thinkpad T41 runs at the minimum 600MHz
 > most of the time because the processor is mostly idle. The cpuspeed
 > service monitors CPU usage, and kicks it up to the higher levels if it
 > is needed. If I am building something large on my laptop, cpuspeed
 > kicks it up to 1.6GHz. My battery gets eaten much faster, temperatures
 > rise, and the fan blows at full speed.
 >
 > If you really don't want cpuspeed to manage your processor, you can
 > disable it with:
 > service cpuspeed stop
 > chkconfig cpuspeed off
 >
 > cat /proc/cpuinfo
 > Use this to verify your current speed and processor features.

Is this true regardless of whether you are running on battery or plugged-in?

(the T41 is a slick laptop, btw)

Thanks,
Steven Garrity