[CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

Hey, folks,

Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl.  Using gkrellm,
it's obvious the CPU is the laggard.  The top utility confirms: the load
average gets up over 4 at times.  But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs
the speed at 600MHz.  This processor is capable of 1.5GHz and when it's
allowed to run at that speed, the load average is under 2, which is fine.

So the question is: what's a good /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed file?  This
workstation is a notebook and it can get hot.  Of course I'd rather type
on slow machine than a machine with a fried mainboard, so a report of a
high temperature should kick in the governor and lower the speed.

Currently my /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed has no variables defined (it's been
this way at least since Apr 24) and I don't know what the number ranges
and other values for them might be.


Thanks.

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