CPU frequency control

[Adam Membrey]

Lyndon Drake wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Some time in the last few days, X applications have started running very
>slowly - apps that would have been redrawn instantly now take several
>seconds (e.g. Gnumeric, Evo, Firefox).  Playing DVDs in Xine still works
>fine though.
>
>I'm running a P4 2.5GHz machine with 1Gb of RAM, but when I look
>at /proc/cpuinfo it shows the CPU frequency at more like 312MHz.  I had
>a look at the CPU frequency monitor applet in GNOME, and that also shows
>the CPU frequency getting scaled back as soon as I stop doing anything
>CPU intensive.
>
>How can I stop the CPU frequency scaling, or at least limit it to
>something a little more reasonable?
>
>Kind regards,
>Lyndon
>
>
>  
>
If you're running hoary you can do a sudo apt-get install cpufreqd and 
then add it to your gnome panel.

Otherwise, you can download and compile the package, 
http://cpufreqd.sourceforge.net/