[Debian-eeepc-devel] saving battery

[Trent W. Buck]

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes:

> Here is one of the lines I see from cpufreq-info:
>  current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1.67 GHz.
>                   The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
>                   within this range.

On a modern system, this information is available directly via /sys/.
You get one entry per CPU (where HyperThreading counts as two CPUs).