[H-GEN] SUSE Power tip etc.

[David Ash]

A lot of distros have this now.  Also not just for laptops, but also for 
large data centers where power consumption and cost is quite large can 
take advantage of this.  It's enabled by default on Red Hat but you can 
disable this by doing:
#service cpuspeed stop
When I watch /proc/cpuinfo on my laptop when I'm not doing anything it's 
about 800 but goes up to 1600 when I start doing lots of stuff like 
compiling etc.

Quite nice.

Regards
Dash

Simon Ellis wrote:
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> Hello everyone.
> 
> For some reason (possibly notebooks), SUSE/OpenSUSE etc. throttle the
> processor performance by default.
> 
> This can be remedied by editing the power profile
> 
> Yast, System, Power Management, Edit Schemes, Performance, Edit, disable
> Allow Throttling and check Frequency Scaling is set for Maximum Performance,
> next, next, OK,and Finish.
> 
> and optionally
> 
> disabling the powersave daemon
> 
> Yast, System, System Services (Runlevel), service powersaved, disable,
> Finish, and quit Yast.
> 
> This will restore performance and make SUSE more competitive to the other
> Distro's.
> 
> 
> Currently there are several Computer magazines with OpenSUSE CD's/DVD
> featured. Of particular interest is Linux Magazine which has an OpenSUSE
> 10.1 DVD which functions as an install DVD as well as a Live DVD booting
> either KDE or GNOME.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Simon Ellis.
> 
> 
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