Hi, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:07:41PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:29:08PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:25:57PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > > > I'm using an Intel Johnstown board with an Atom N270 processor. Performance > > > seems to improve dramatically with acpi-cpufreq loaded. This caught me by > > > surprise. I had assumed that without loading acpi-cpufreq the CPU would be > > > running at its maximum speed all the time. > > > > I ran some tests to get some numbers. My findings indicate that before > > acpi-cpufreq is loaded the CPU is running at 800MHz even though /proc/cpuinfo > > indicates 1.6GHz. > > if no cpufreq modules have been loaded, the CPU will be running at whatever > p-state the BIOS programmed it to start up at. In your case for some reason, that's > the 'slow' speed. Okay, that's what I figured. Looks like there's some BIOS settings that may have an effect. I'll play with those. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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