hello,
I was just doing a search for the threshold_high variable because I was hoping some clever person already figured this stuff out :) So I stumbled in on this fresh topic. You see I have this asus netbook, and I was curious to see if I could get a better understanding of the graphics power management system, to make sure everything is well.
So far what I've learned is that, legacyagpm kext removed, my core clock was no longer throttled and applications run very smoothly, opengl extensions, velociraptor game, and minecraft. After entering my own device id into the oem apple kext, the throttling begins. I learned that having a "LogControl" entry set to 1 will provide you a verbose print out to the kernel.log any time your IGPU, integrated gpu, changes power savings states.
0 = no throttling, 1 = some throttling, 2 = decent throttling, 3 = most conservative mode.
I have the 9400M chipset in here, so I've been pluggin in different Heuristics from model that sho...