on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:08:40PM +0100, Alexander Clouter
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone else out there seeing lockups under 2.2.x (2.2.18 here) with a
> > PIII SpeedStep (aka Geyserville) chip?
> >
> > I've had lockups over the past week I suspect are due to CPU step-speed
> > changes resulting from power source switching.
> >
> isn't there an option in the bios to banish this 'feature'? I remember
> there being reference to this in a couple of places. Once disabled I
> guess you could solely use 'CPU Idle' calls to cool your cpu, which I
> assume has the same *effect*.
There is.
I've set CPU speed to "maximum" (forget the precise opts, believe they're
max, min, auto, reverse). System's been up for 19 hours w/o problems,
previously I was lucky to get an hour.
Note also that SpeedStep is probably more useful under an OS which
doesn't have preemptive multitasking. My understanding of Win9X/ME was
that it ran at full tilt unless specifically idled, this information
coming from VMWare experiences. NT/2K and GNU/Linux have an idle cycle
which actually idles the CPU.
What's the CPU Idle call you're referringn to?
Cheers.
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