Re: powernow-k8 woes -- need help diagnosing intermittent failure
Hi John,
> I use powernowd for governing, and for testing have a cron job which
> builds the Debian python2.4 package from source (via pdebuild) every 30
> minutes. powernowd governs according to system load, and this test has
> the effect of causing frequent power transitions. Usually the problem
> occurs within 2 hours.
>
> If you enable the cpufreq_stats driver in the kernel, you can see a
> count of transitions at
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/trans_table.
thank you for this tip. i'm now using this.
> Thanks for giving this a try. Please let me know how it goes.
Ok, i've created a cron job that builds emovix every 30mins.
I've tested that it provokes a switch from 1.001GHz 1.1V to 1.8GHz 1.5V.
So far, 10 switches have occured, still no problem.
I'll let it go at least a day and come back to you.
-Pascal
PS: Does the machine freeze upon failure? i don't have physical access
to the box until i go back to montreal (on the 10th).
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