[CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel
Kai Schaetzl
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Sun Aug 3 19:22:50 UTC 2008
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:59:49 +0200:
> 5 minutes later: oh, yes, it does! Now I got it to 0% idle and current
> frequency jumped to 2333000 (although current scaling frequency was still
> shown at 2000000, on AMDs both figures rise).Looks like a clear bug in the
> centrino kernel module to me. It scales only up if the overall threshold
> is reached
Setting the threshold in sysconfig/cpuspeed from 80 to 50 down makes it work,
e.g. a single gzip task filling one CPU will be able to scale the frequency
up.
Kai
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