[CentOS] cpuspeed on centos 5

[Bryan Cardillo]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:06:16AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> It appears as cpuspeed is not running on my centos 5 box(s).
> One is a biostar motherboard Am2 6400+ the other is Asus am2 4800+.
> 
> If I do "service cpuspeed stop" it says OK,
> If I do a "service cpuspeed start" is says OK.
> However at no time is cpuspeed running.
> 
> /proc/cpuinfo only shows the cpu running at 1000 Mhz.
> 
> If I manually run "cpuspeed -C & " I now have cpuspeed running
> as a process and /proc/cpuspeed shows 2200 mhz.
> 
> service cpuspeed stop then stops this process as it should.
> 
> service cpuspeed start does not start cpuspeed again...
> 
> Any ideas?

        check out /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed, by default it uses a
        kernel-space governor (ondemand), which doesn't require the
        cpuspeed daemon.

        Cheers,
        Bryan Cardillo
        Penn Bioinformatics Core
        University of Pennsylvania