On 05/16/2012 09:03 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
In article4FB3628A.4050300@karan.org, Karanbir Singhmail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 05/15/2012 01:05 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
Eventually I found that stopping the "cpuspeed" subsystem allowed the load average to drop down to near zero, as I would expect it to be.
and what impact did that have on your power consumption ? And did it make a difference to the performance of the machine ?
It's too early to say, since it is a new box that I am just setting up. I would expect it to consume a little more power, since the CPU will be running at full speed, but to perform better.
Since it will be a high-traffic SIP server running Asterisk, I expect running cpuspeed would be a bit pointless anyway.
But that wasn't my main point, which was why cpuspeed should cause an abnormally high load average on this system.
Cheers Tony
just a thought there is a basic minimum load - when the CPU is at full speed it is a small % - when the CPU is throttled back to 30% of full speed the minimum load is a noticeable %?? HTH