CPU Frequency Monitor Question

[Michael Scottaline]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:46:57 -0500, justin williams
<justin at justinchrist.com> wrote:
<snippage, for brevity's sake>
> My problem is that the CPU Frequency Monitor is showing 600MHz most of
> the time, only changing when I'm opening a new program up to rated 1.40
> GHz, than it drops in this order, with exactly a 2 seconds between each
> step. (Yes I actually did time it)
> 
> 1.40 GHz, 1.20 GHz, 1GHz, 800 MHz, and back finally to 600MHz where it
> will stay until I open a new program.
> 
> Anyone have an idea as to why it is doing this...or what it means actually?
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I guess it's some sort of power saving magic to conserve power on a
battery driven laptop.
Just a stab....
Mike

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