I just disabled the service via the GUI in Gnome. There should be a 'Services' menu item in Administration. There are also a bunch of other services running that you may not need (e.g., bluetooth). Jonathan Osborne jwo at umn.edu Troy said the following on 12/20/2007 17.10 > I tried to execute Jonathan's suggestion of disabling CPU scaling, but > the command I found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87415 > > sudo killall powernowd > > > Does nothing on my system.