[OT] make your Linux box hot

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:59:40AM -0600, Vu Pham wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>> Vu, sorry, but when I read the Subject: line, I wondered if this was
>> going to be some perverted spam. "Make your Linux box hot" just has a
>> totally different connotation for me than what you intended. This might
>> simply mean that I'm a sick, twisted freak.
>
> Should have had the topic "make your cpu hot" :)) <jk>.
> Thanks for correcting me. I will make the topics more relavant next time.

You didn't need to apologize. I was making light of the, um,
gutter-directedness of my mind, not attempting to correct you. I'm far
enough from perfect that I haven't the time nor desire to correct others.

> Anyway, I just tried the cpufreq - in my system, it is cpufreq-selector - 
> and it looks like to me that this tool will set the frequency for CPUs, but 
> I just do not know how to display the current frequencies of the cpus. Its 
> help is so short.

Ah. You want cpufrequtils: 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/cpufreq/cpufrequtils.html

Kurt