1.\" (c) Copyright 2010 by Matthew Dillon and Dima Ruban. Permission to 2.\" use and distribute based on the DragonFly copyright. 3.\" 4.Dd June 28, 2010 5.Dt POWERD 8 6.Os 7.Sh NAME 8.Nm powerd 9.Nd simple ACPI based CPU/power control 10.Sh SYNOPSIS 11.Nm 12.Op Fl d 13.Sh DESCRIPTION 14The 15.Nm 16daemon monitors the CPU load and automatically adjusts the CPU 17frequency up or down. 18.Pp 19All CPUs will be set to their maximum frequency when the 1 second 20machine load exceeds 25% of one CPU. All CPUs will be set to their 21minimum frequency when the 10 second machine load drops below 12% of 22one CPU. 23.Pp 24The options are as follows: 25.Bl -tag -width Fl 26.It Fl d 27Debug option. 28Causes 29.Nm 30to not go to the background and prints some debug output to 31.Va stdout . 32.El 33.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 34The 35.Nm 36utility will exit with a non-zero code if the required sysctls are not 37present. 38.Sh SEE ALSO 39.Xr acpi 4 40.Sh HISTORY 41The 42.Nm 43command first appeared in 44.Dx 2.7 . 45.Sh BUGS 46I'm shocked I tell you, shocked that there might be bugs in this program! 47