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POWERD(8)	       DragonFly 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 ALSO
     acpi(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!

DragonFly 3.5			 June 28, 2010			 DragonFly 3.5