Schadenfreude » rtc http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to set the RTC max_user_freq in newer kernels http://www.ralree.com/2009/07/19/how-to-set-the-rtc-max_user_freq-in-newer-kernels/ http://www.ralree.com/2009/07/19/how-to-set-the-rtc-max_user_freq-in-newer-kernels/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:03:07 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.com/?p=22623 /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/max_user_freq echo 2048 >/proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq Reboot, and you should get better performance from things like mplayer.]]> I found out today how to set the real time clock max frequencies in Ubuntu since they removed the possibility to do it from sysutil.conf from newer kernels. Add the following to your /etc/rc.local or another startup script:

echo 2048 >/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/max_user_freq
echo 2048 >/proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq

Reboot, and you should get better performance from things like mplayer.

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