27/02/2005
Cool down your athlon with athcool
athcool is a VERY nice utility that enables AMD’s athlons to enter powersaving mode. It’s just great. Less heat, less noise from fans that don’t need to run on 4000rpms any more 🙂
Just a part from the Athlon Powersaving HOWTO.
The HLT signal which is used by the normal idle-loop of the Linux kernel doesn’t normaly bring any significant power-saving on processors of the Athlon/Duron family (hereafter referred to as Athlon processors). To get real power-saving on an Athlon processor, you have to put the processor in the STPGNT-Mode (Stop Grant Mode). In this mode, the processor is disconnected from the front-side bus (FSB), and can turn off parts of the CPU as well as reduce the clock to save power.
just emerge athcool and start using it.
Filed by kargig at 12:55 under General,Linux
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Just curious, did you add athcool to rc.local to have it run at boot or did you do something else?
errrr local.start I mean :]
if u’ve got gentoo…try: rc-update add athcool default
and you are done 🙂