POWERD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual POWERD(8)NAME
powerd — simple ACPI based CPU/power control
SYNOPSIS
powerd [-d]
DESCRIPTION
The powerd daemon monitors the CPU load and automatically adjusts the CPU
frequency up or down.
All CPUs will be set to their maximum frequency when the 1 second machine
load exceeds 25% of one CPU. All CPUs will be set to their minimum fre‐
quency when the 10 second machine load drops below 12% of one CPU.
The options are as follows:
-d Debug option. Causes powerd to not go to the background and
prints some debug output to stdout.
DIAGNOSTICS
The powerd utility will exit with a non-zero code if the required sysctls
are not present.
SEE ALSOacpi(4)HISTORY
The powerd command first appeared in DragonFly 2.7.
BUGS
I'm shocked I tell you, shocked that there might be bugs in this program!
BSD June 28, 2010 BSD