Re: Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Kemian Dang
Thanks for reply, but this does not work, it is still slow. I get some output from sysctl: %sysctl -a |grep freq kern.acct_chkfreq: 15 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-safe.frequency: 3579545 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 2500 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.

Re: Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi just a shoot into the dark, but did you set debug.cpufreq.lowest=1000 in /etc/sysctl.conf? 1000 MHz is the lowest (usable) frequency of my laptop. Cheers, Olier Kemian Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Compaq laptop running FB7 stable. > When I use battery, the system

Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Kemian Dang
Dear all, I have a Compaq laptop running FB7 stable. When I use battery, the system becomes very slow, there are even lag of the cursor. The "load average" would be 1 - 2, while the idle CPU is 99.0%. It would not change even I plug the ac power later. But if I reboot the machine whit ac power, e