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How to measure the clock pulse of my computer manually?

My PC has two processors, and I know that each one runs at 1.86 GHz. I have just read about clock cycles and I only have a (very) rough understanding, so I apologize beforehand if my question is so ...
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Unable to reduce core frequency freebsd

I'm working on a FreeBSD project where I need to maintain the temperature of the processor below a threshold value. In order to reduce the temperature I'm trying to dynamically change the frequency of ...
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Can I run multiple cores at different clock speeds?

I see the cores on an Intel i5 machine I'm looking at can only be run at the same clockspeed: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/related_cpus lists all of the CPUs. Setting cpu1's clockspeed changes ...
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cpufreqd does not control temperature plus shows no output

Since my laptop (an Acer Aspire 5750G running a Gentoo Linux with a not-quite-up-to-date kernel 2.6.39-r3 (a weird wLan hardware makes the update difficult)) tends to run rather hot I am trying to ...
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Process priority and cpu speed

In some devices the cpu speed is dynamic, being faster when there is more load. I was wondering if it is possible to set nice level or priority of a process so that it does not influence an increase ...
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Loading speedstep_centrino kernel module

Because of a noisy fan in my laptop, I need to change CPU frequency and for this task I need to load the appropriate kernel module. The CPU in my laptop Acer TravelMate 4002WLMi is: $ cat ...
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Setting CPU frequency guidelines

I'm changing my CPU frequency because of noisy fan. I used sudo cpufreq-selector -g powersave for this purpose, but I replaced my Linux system Xubuntu with Lubuntu because it utilizes better ...