multi-core CPU support

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 13:28 -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:25 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 18/10/2007, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > 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...
> > 
> > 32 bit. I'm waiting to read more good things about 64 bit before I
> > switch. In fact, I'd love to hear of the advantages for once instead
> > of just the problems.
> > 
> > Dotan Cohen
> > 
> > http://what-is-what.com
> > http://gibberish.co.il
 < <א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
> > 
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> > 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, which applet is the "CPU Frequency Scaling
> Monitor applet for the Gnome taskbar" applet?

/usr/libexec/cpufreq-applet

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