laptop slowdown when unplugged

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:10, Trevor Smith wrote:
> I find my laptop slooooooooooows down when the power cable is unplugged. 
That should be the cause of the slowdown in processor speed. In Intel
it's called Speedstep.

eg: in my centrino, on AC power, 1.4Ghz, when on Batt - 600Mhz.

> Simple graphical redraws take sluggish amounts of time. This goes away 
> immediately when I plug the power back in. It seems to be 100% reproducible. 
> Is it a KDE thing or a linux thing? Is there some configuration item 
> somewhere that I can use to prevent the cpu from slowing down or whatever is 
> happening?
> 
> -- 
> Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com

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Ow Mun Heng
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel
2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive 
Neuromancer 14:48:44 up 15:45, 4 users, load average: 1.19, 0.85, 0.79