CPU running half speed on ThinkPad with FC2

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, limaunion wrote:

> Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>> Steven Garrity wrote:
>> 
>>> Pardon my re-post on this, but I'm convinced my ThinkPad T30 is still 
>>> running half-speed, even when plugged-in.
>>> 
>>> Any other T30 users out there?
>>> 
>> And if as root you do:
>> killall -USR1 cpuspeed
>> Does that kick it to max speed?  It should.  Read the output from 
>> 'cpuspeed -h' and if you want being on ac power to force max speed instead 
>> of dynamic regulation then perhaps you should configure an acpi event 
>> handler to do that.
>> 
>
> I'm having the same problem, at 99% cpu load my notebook is running 
> half-speed instead of increase the speed. I'll try to tweak cpuspeed, 
> otherwise I'll switch to cpudyn which works very nice.
> bye.

With FC2 cpuspeed works for me on a T40 (Pentium-M) - but cpudyn
doesn't.  I'm interested in knowing your experience with cpudyn.

Currently I use cpudyn in FC1 and I like its policy better than
cpuspeed policy.

Satish