Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Manolis Kiagias wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I was wondering about the "truth-of-clockspeed." Perhaps the 1800-MHz only applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while the external bus-clocking is down at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a typica

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread V.I.Victor
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > V.I.Victor wrote: I was wondering about the "truth-of-clockspeed." >> Perhaps the 1800-MHz only applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while >> the external bus-clocking is down at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a >> typical marketing ploy! >> >> About disa

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
V.I.Victor wrote: > I was wondering about the "truth-of-clockspeed." Perhaps the 1800-MHz only > applies to CPU internal cache, etc. while the external bus-clocking is down > at 500-MHz or so. Sounds like a typical marketing ploy! > > About disabling the ACPI... Can I do it *safely* via the

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-26 Thread V.I.Victor
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > V.I.Victor wrote: >> I've two 5.4 desktop boxes.

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no mo

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread V.I.Victor
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >>> V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user lo

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lig

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread V.I.Victor
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > V.I.Victor wrote: >> I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both >> from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via >> ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded. >> >> Box_A: CPU: A

Re: ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
V.I.Victor wrote: I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded. Box_A: CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (598.84-MHz 686-class CPU) ava

ACPI slowing CPU... or something else

2007-07-25 Thread V.I.Victor
I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded. Box_A: CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (598.84-MHz 686-class CPU) avail memory = 12163072