> From adi.gangidi at rackspace.com Thu Jul 14 01:23:20 2016 > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 01:23:20 +0000 > > Hello nice people on CentOS list, > > ?Default governor on CentOS 7 ppc64le OS bootup is "conservative" . This has about 20% effect on benchmark numbers, if you don't change the governor to ondemand manually (for specific benchmarks). I tested this on our barreleye power 8 server. > > This even though kernel config is set for "ondemand" as default governor: > > [root at Barreleye-1 ~]# cat /boot/config-3.10.0-327.el7.ppc64le | grep -i ondemand > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y > > I filed a bug on this with details and am posting here for info and also to accelerate some response on the bug: > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=11094 > > Best > Adi Gangidi > Rackspace Hello, Adi. Any chance that other software is overriding the default CPU governor setting? For example, tuned is a good candidate. -- Murilo