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Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?



"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.
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org


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