today's performance results

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Roderick Colenbrander
<thunderbird2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my laptop I also had some weird results in some game depending on
> when I started it. In my case I suspected that the GPU wasn't at the
> maximum clock speeds yet. Depending on what GPU you are using you
> might also have '2d' and '3d' clocks. Try to force it to maximum
> clocks using nvidia-settings.

Thanks, I'll try.

Looks like nvidia-settings can only read the clocks, not set them?
nvidia-settings -q GPUPerfModes -t; nvidia-settings -q
GPUCurrentPerfLevel -t; nvidia-settings -q GPUCurrentClockFreqs -t
displays their current value.

Setting them appears to require changing kernel
module parameters (either in xorg.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/mumble).
Related pages:
http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/+bug/164589