Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 02:07 +0100, Thibaut Cousin wrote: Hello, My computer is an AMD64 3200 MHz (real speed 2000 MHz) running OpenSUSE 10.2 x86_64. Everything is fine, but I noticed a strange detail, I don't know how to understand it. At first I had a KPowersave icon in the

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-19 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 18 December 2006 23:16, Hans du Plooy wrote: But you shouldn't need to.   The CPU responds almost instantly to load demands (even though the monitoring tools don't), and for the times when you're just reading your e-mail, a 1000mhz Athlon64 is one heck of a powerfull chip. Well, I

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:32 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 23:16, Hans du Plooy wrote: But you shouldn't need to. The CPU responds almost instantly to load demands (even though the monitoring tools don't), and for the times when you're just reading your e-mail, a

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-19 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Le mardi 19 décembre 2006 09:16, Hans du Plooy a écrit : My final question is: how do I tell my stupid CPU that it's not running on a laptop, and that it should be at full speed all the time? Maybe set active scheme to performance as well? It doesn't work, as this choice is not

[opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-17 Thread Thibaut Cousin
Hello, My computer is an AMD64 3200 MHz (real speed 2000 MHz) running OpenSUSE 10.2 x86_64. Everything is fine, but I noticed a strange detail, I don't know how to understand it. At first I had a KPowersave icon in the KDE systray. By default, it seemed to choose a Dynamic management of

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-17 Thread Martin Mielke
, Martin - Original Message From: Thibaut Cousin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:07:13 AM Subject: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason? Hello, My computer is an AMD64 3200 MHz (real speed 2000 MHz) running OpenSUSE 10.2 x86_64

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-17 Thread Alexey Eremenko
The newer desktop CPU's may have power-saving features (like laptops) so if there is no load, they use less power and when load goes up their performance will scale up to 100%. My friend's laptop has Mobile AMD Athlon 64 which works usually at 800 MHz, but when you have some task for it - it