On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:57 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David Nielsen <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > David> man, 11 09 2006 kl. 19:27 -0500, skrev Jay Cliburn: > >> David Nielsen wrote: > man, 11 09 2006 kl. 19:45 -0400, skrev Dave > >> Jones: > >> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > >> >> > Dave Jones wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >> > >> Fedora Test Update Notification >> > >> FEDORA-2006-967 >> > >> > >> 2006-09-11 >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> Product : Fedora Core 5 >> > >> Name : kernel >> > >> > >> Version : 2.6.17 >> > >> Release : 1.2187_FC5 > >> >> > > >> >> > Worksforme. Nicely done. I take it 2.6.18 is not going to be > >> released for >> > a while? > >> >> > >> >> I'm hoping to get a 2.6.18rc6 based kernel into updates-testing > >> soon >> (and then rebase to .18 for updates-final when that gets > >> released), but >> as usual, xen is throwing a spanner in the works. > >> > > >> > if you do that I believe we would be likely to hit this one: > >> > > >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205305 > >> > > >> > which is currently breaking cpu scaling for me on Development > >> > >> Hmmm... I have an AMD64x2 3800+ that scales up to 2 GHz just fine > >> under the current rawhide kernel. > > David> Very odd, I and a few others are seeing this, maybe something > David> is loading wrong modules on certain machines. I had to manually > David> recompile the kernel to make it stop locking it at the lowest > David> setting (although I managed to kill scaling as well but I'll > David> take broken scaling at 2.2GHz over broken scaling at 1GHz) > > Amusingly enough, I just got one of these today. > (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+) > > Mine also seems to stick at 1ghz on both cores instead of ramping up > to 2.2ghz (as the cpus are able to). > > It looks to me like a bug in the 'ondemand' cpu govener... > If I simply change to performance: > > echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor > > It goes to 2.2 and stays there. ondemand seems to never raise from the > lowest possible speed here. > > David> - David > > kevin I've been noticing under rawhide with my single core Intel Pentium M that the cpufreq applet reports On Demand and that it only seems to swap between 600 MHz and 2000 MHz with no steps in between, 30% to 100% to 30% to 100% back to 30%. It used to ramp up and down based on demand but now just jumps to either extreme. Maybe it's more efficient this way? tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list