On Sunday, August 03, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
...I have an older low-voltage AMD CPU (probably about 2 years on the market) that is recognized as X2 3800+ but frequency scaling fails because it miscalculates the current speed to 800 MHz as well. Is there anything I can do about that? Where could I check whether this CPU should be supported in full and frequency scaling working?
The cpuspeed changelog may be relevant:
[quote] * Thu Mar 06 2008 Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com
- Disable freq scaling by default on AMD rev F and earlier cpus when running xen, due to clock instability (#435321) [/quote]
I didn't look up your cpu, but I think it's a revision F.
Also, thanks for the /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed "ondemand" tip.
It seemed counterintuitive to explicitly specify the so-called default governor value (i.e., "empty defaults to ondemand"), but doing so did the trick under xen for my revision G AMD processor.
Steve