Re: cpu scaling on Dell 5150
I've been trying powenowd for a few hours now, it does seem to work
better (frequency does not change in a second, and I like the scaling
approach better, as opposed to cpudyn's maximum or minimum thing).
However, I still have not seen a reduction in temperature, which is the
main reason I wanted this. Plus, I still find the discrepancy between
the frequency reported by
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed (which matches the
one reported in /proc/cpuinfo) and the one reported by x86info, culled
from the /dev/cpu/0/cpuid, which does not go down very much (only
occasionally and then only to around 1200MHz at the most). Which one
should I trust?
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:29:15PM +0100, Pete Wright wrote:
> I found that using powernowd instead of cpufreq worked like a charm. I
> also found that gkrellm was not a good indicator of the processors
> current speed - you get much better results by just 'cat'ing the
> relevent file in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
>
> Hope that helps some
>
> Pete
>
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Ivan Fernández
ivan.fernandez@vanderbilt.edu
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