Bug#550017: linux-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem: ondemand governor never maxes cpu frequency

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Package: linux-2.6.30-2-bigmem
Version: 2.6.30-8

On a Core2Duo E8500, the ondemand governor never sets the CPU to
maxfreq.  Actually, it never appears to change the frequency from
2000.000 (as reported by /proc/cpuinfo).

Setting the scaling_governor to performance immediately takes the cpu(s)
to cpuinfo_max_freq (2834000).

To test the ondemand governor, two instances of this command were run as
root:

  gzip -9v -c /dev/urandom > /dev/null

Thanks
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Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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