[Tfug] no cpu scaling lately on a core2 duo

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jan 27 15:00:03 MST 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM, JD Rogers <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Grrr...
> For I-don't-know-how-long my ubuntu laptop has seemed sluggish. I have
> been blaming the unity/compiz interface and dabbled some with
> 2D-unity, gnome shell, kde, and xfce, but it didn't make a huge
> difference. I've been really annoyed that all the WM's and desktop
> environments have gotten so bloated that things are so much slower. I
> never would have guessed my CPU has been locked at half speed all this
> time!

First things first.  If you change to 'performance' do you go up to 2GHz?

-- 
Tom




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