laptop slowdown when unplugged
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Tue Sep 21 06:49:31 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:10, Trevor Smith wrote:
> I find my laptop slooooooooooows down when the power cable is unplugged.
That should be the cause of the slowdown in processor speed. In Intel
it's called Speedstep.
eg: in my centrino, on AC power, 1.4Ghz, when on Batt - 600Mhz.
> Simple graphical redraws take sluggish amounts of time. This goes away
> immediately when I plug the power back in. It seems to be 100% reproducible.
> Is it a KDE thing or a linux thing? Is there some configuration item
> somewhere that I can use to prevent the cpu from slowing down or whatever is
> happening?
>
> --
> Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com
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Ow Mun Heng
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel
2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive
Neuromancer 14:48:44 up 15:45, 4 users, load average: 1.19, 0.85, 0.79
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