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Disabling CPU Scaling With Ubuntu 10.04

If your like me it annoys you that your desktop keeps messing with your CPU speeds when all you wan’t is performance. Fortunately its easy enough to fix.

Open a terminal windows and execute:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rcconf

(Chances are you may already have the rcconf installed.)

sudo rcconf

Scroll down the list of services till you find the service labelled “Ondemand”, this is the service that controls the CPU scaling. Unselect the option and hit Ok to exit, now when you reboot your system should run at full speed all the time.

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May 6th, 2010 at 4:19 pm

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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx A Quick Look

The newest Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu distro labelled Lucid Lynx was released earlier today. This release is packed with new packages and enhancements, making me keen to try it out. Not being brave enough to gamble with my current desktop machine running Karmic Koala I decided to download the .iso and play with it in a virtual machine first to give me a feel of what to expect.

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April 30th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

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