Re: cpu throttling

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Les wrote:
Hi, everyone...
I am on Fedora 8.  I hope to go to F9, but think after watching the
mail, I will wait a bit.  You all know I'm not astute on this stuff yet.

	My question is probably a stupid one.... I have a rather old, but well
performing Pentium system with dual processors.  Single chip type.  I
got the CPU throttling messages, and believed them.  I took the system
apart, cleaned the heatsinks and fans, relubed the interconnect and
reassembled everything.  Messages gone, no problem.  But then I thought
how would I monitor this as the local temps went into the 90's and we
don't have AC (this only happens a couple of days a year here in San
Juan Capistrano).  So I brought up the CPU speed monitor and the CPU
temp monitor.  But the speed monitors said that the board lacked
throttling capability.  NOW this is a connundrum.  How did I get the
throttling messages if no throttling is available, and how does the
monitoring code know the current speed of 2.99Ghz?
Regards,
Les H


That means is lacks OS controlled cpu throttling for power savings, not fail-safe in the cpu throttling by the cpu itself to save the cpu.

Only very new Intels have useful cpu throttling for power savings (were the actual clock speed is slowed down), but for a log longer time they have had overheat cpu throttling that was controller internally by the cpu, and took effect when things got too hot.

In the past (on older kernels) when I have had machines overheating it has been difficult to see without the kernel messages about throttling. cpuinfo used to report the unthrottled cpu speed even when throttled, so the kernel messages or noticing that some machines were slower than they should have been were the only options.

                                 Roger

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