laptop slowdown when unplugged

[Andy McKay]

there is also a know bug where when changing power source kacpid can
take up huge amounts 80-100% of the cpu time.


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:49:31 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >
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> > 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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