On 05/16/2012 09:03 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article<4FB3628A.4050300 at karan.org>, > Karanbir Singh<mail-lists at 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