[LAU] Balance between performance and noise

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Sat Nov 27 12:11:32 UTC 2010


On Saturday 27 November 2010 11:24:01 rosea.grammostola wrote:
> When I set cpu scaling with sudo cpufreq-set -g performance, I have the
> best proaudio performance on my thinkpad T61. But, that will also heat
> things up very quickly with as consequence more sound from the fans.
> The laptop is more silent when I use, sudo cpufreq-set -g ondemand, but
> I get more xruns then.
> Is it possible to adjust the ondemand settings to find more balance
> between performance and noise? How?

Set ther cpu-governor to performance (so it doesn't switch frequencies which 
produces xruns) but reduce the maximum allowed frequency.

Have fun,

Arnold
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