hi,

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:44:44AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> > Did you boot it while on battery?  This almost certainly has 'enhanced
> > speedstep' or something, and there is some way (ACPI I think) to
> > adjust the CPU speed.  I believe the default at boot is full if on
> > power and low if on battery, and then the BIOS expects the OS to
> > control this.  Some FreeBSD folks have added support for adjusting the
> > speed after boot depending on the load average:
> >
> > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-est/

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i have a simple user-space tool that does exactly the same thing for netbsd
available at http://www.elektro-eel.org/estd-netbsd.html - it depends on
speedstep support in the kernel though, so you'll need a -current kernel.
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greetings,
ove