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.