multi-core CPU support

[Scott van Looy]

Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:

> On 18/10/2007, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> I recently got a laptop with a multi-core CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo), so I
>> decided to have a quick look at some of the things related to that.
>>
>> I tried the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet for the Gnome taskbar,
>> but it errored-out saying that it couldn't be used.  That didn't sound
>> right, so I had a look through the service configuration, and noticed
>> that the cpuspeed and irqbalance daemons were stopped, despite being set
>> to start.
>>
>> Starting them worked without any errors, so it wasn't as if they *can't*
>> be run (such as when they're set to start on a single-core system).
>> They just didn't start, for some unknown reason, when the system boots
>> up.
>>
>> I was wondering whether anybody else had noticed whether those daemons
>> weren't running for them, when they should have been.
>>
>
> I've got the same CPU in my Dell Inspiron. In both Fedora 6 (I could
> not install 7 on this machine) and Ubuntu Feisty, the KPowerManager
> app works fine, including CPU scaling. I don't know how to check the
> daemons, but apps that perform CPU scaling apparently work just fine.

Me too, using Gnome. Are you using 32bit or 64bit installs tho? I'm using 
64bit on core2 as it's a 64bit chip...

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