Re: cpufrequtils SOLVED

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> I run vmworkstation.  I do not want my desktop to use ondemand.
>
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
> userspace conservative ondemand powersave performance
>
> when I edit /etc/init.d./cpufrequtils
>
> .......snip
> # Set ENABLE to "true" to let the script run at boot time.
> #
> # eg:    ENABLE="true"
> #    GOVERNOR="ondemand"
> #    MAX_SPEED=1000
> #    MIN_SPEED=500
>
> ENABLE="true"
> GOVERNOR="ondemand"
> MAX_SPEED="0"
> MIN_SPEED="0"
> ....................snip.............
>
> and have it say GOVERNOR="performance"
>
> it will not come up from a boot that way.  I will still have cpu 
> frequency scaling running.  I have to run /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils 
> from the cli, and yet it IS in the rc.d scripts.
>
> Anybody knows what is going on here?
>
> Perhaps a better option for me would be to use userspace and manually 
> set the freq (full when running vms, slower when not needed) and that 
> way I will not always be sucking down the juice.  What would a good 
> userspace tool be?  dual core amd cpus.
I am running gnome desktop so I dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets, set up 
frequency applet with suid root.  This allows me the ability to use the 
applets to set the CPU scale.  I can now choose an exact speed for my 
procs OR explicitly set the CPU governor by  double clicking on the 
app.  This should allow me to set the CPU freq to full, then fire up 
vmworkstation and my vms will not get confused as to the CPU speed.

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Damon L. Chesser
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