Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

["Tilo Schwarz" <tilo@tilo-schwarz.de>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:40 +0100, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:

> "Tilo Schwarz" <tilo@tilo-schwarz.de> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:42:13 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs
> > <nospam@codegnome.org>  wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to set my scaling governor in /etc/sysctl.conf, rather than by
> > > echoing a value to:
> > >
> > >     /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> > >
> > > However, I'm not finding a key for it via the sysctl utility. When I
> > > run:
> > >
> > >     sysctl -a | fgrep -i cpu
> > >
> > > I get nothing. Why can I write to a value in sysfs that can't be
> > > accessed with sysctl? And more importantly, how am I supposed to do  
> > > this
> > > at boot without sysctl.conf?
> >
> > I use sysfs.conf:
> >
> > #grep demand /etc/sysfs.conf
> > devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor = ondemand
>
> If you have the cpufrequtils package installed, then just edit
> /etc/defaults/cpufrequtils to specify which you want at boot.

I don't have the cpufrequtils package installed.

--
Regards,

    Tilo