CPU running half speed on ThinkPad with FC2

limaunion limaunion at fibertel.com.ar
Fri May 28 00:34:47 UTC 2004


Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Steven Garrity wrote:
> 
>> Pardon my re-post on this, but I'm convinced my ThinkPad T30 is still 
>> running half-speed, even when plugged-in.
>>
>> Any other T30 users out there?
>>
> And if as root you do:
> killall -USR1 cpuspeed
> Does that kick it to max speed?  It should.  Read the output from 
> 'cpuspeed -h' and if you want being on ac power to force max speed 
> instead of dynamic regulation then perhaps you should configure an acpi 
> event handler to do that.
> 

I'm having the same problem, at 99% cpu load my notebook is running 
half-speed instead of increase the speed. I'll try to tweak cpuspeed, 
otherwise I'll switch to cpudyn which works very nice.
bye.





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