changing a laptop's speed (governor)

[Jeff Liu]

Hi Madi,

You can run "cpufreq-selector -c cpu# -g performance" if the CPU supports
(not very old).

Cheers,

Jeff

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  My Thinkpad running Ubuntu 9.04 seems to almost always run at the slowest
> CPU speed. Great for battery life, I guess, but when I am plugged in I would
> much rather the performance.
>
>  Anyone have any pointers for telling a laptop to run in performance mode?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Madi
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