Short of this is I just put my old Inspiron laptop with a C2D T7200 into service for running Plex. Majority of the time it is running idle for direct play stuff in-house but need that extra boost for transcoding otherwise. Got cpufreqd and utils installed but can't get things to stick. My options stay for a little while, maybe a few hours, then reset.
root@server:/etc/default# cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 2.00 GHz
available frequency steps: 2.00 GHz, 1.67 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1000 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 2.00 GHz and 2.00 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 2.00 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
cpufreq stats: 2.00 GHz:84.97%, 1.67 GHz:2.01%, 1.33 GHz:0.23%, 1000 MHz:12.79% (10028)
analyzing CPU 1:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 1
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 1
maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 2.00 GHz
available frequency steps: 2.00 GHz, 1.67 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1000 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 2.00 GHz and 2.00 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 2.00 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
cpufreq stats: 2.00 GHz:84.81%, 1.67 GHz:1.96%, 1.33 GHz:1.13%, 1000 MHz:12.10% (9123)
Which is what it seems to default to. I'd like to switch it to either ondemand or powersave and have the minimum clock at 1Ghz but as stated, it won't stick. :( Thoughts on where to look?