On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a > >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). > >> > >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, > >> which makes the fan start quite often. > >> > >> Is there any way to fix this? > > > You need to do three things (as root); > > > 1) Load the cpufreq module 'kldload cpufreq'. > > 2) Put 'powerd_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf > > 2) Start powerd: '/etc/rc.d/powerd start' > > > Roland > > Thanks for the hint. > > I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU.
That's a lot. Are you doing anything to make it work hard? Such a constantly high CPU usage is not normal, IMHO. Unless you're doing something wacky like running xearth or xlock on your root window. > CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, > because of the xorg cpu usage. You can try to renice(8) the X server. That might make it less jerky. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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