ken wrote: > 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. well, *is* the CPU really hot when cpuspeed slows it down? If it is then there's no need to tweak /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed , the defaults are doing what you want. Depending on your CPU you can monitor its temp with rpms from elrepo, eg kmod-coretemp for some intels.