'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

I just observed carefully at my CPU Frequency

Every minutes, CPU frequency will keep switching from 250 MHz to 600 MHz back and forth.

Is this normal? :confused:

Re: 'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

Absolutely perfectly normal. Don't worry about it another minute.

Re: 'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

This is perfectly normal behaviour, yes.
An N900 with standard factory settings (no underclocked or overclocked kernels or anything like that) will switch between a couple of frequencies, depending on how hard it has to work. So if your N900 just sits in your pocket doing nothing (but checking mail every once and a while for instance), it will run at 250 MHz, while when you start up a lot of applications or one heavy application, it will switch to a higher CPU frequency to handle that application.

(I hope my explanation was a bit clarifying ;))

Dries

Re: 'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

Its called frequency scaling.It scales the freq up and down when cpu load inscreases or decreases.

Re: 'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

thx in advance to all of the comments

those solved my curiosity

Re: 'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

thanks for the info! i was worried

Re: 'Conky' in My N900 shows unstable CPU Frequency!
 

Most likely your desktop and laptop do the same thing. It is a way to save power and reduce heat when the CPU is not in use.

For more info read these wikipedia articles:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...quency_scaling
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...oltage_scaling