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On 9/8/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 07 September 2006 18:06, Brian Litzinger |
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> <brian@××××××××××××.com> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lack |
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> of 'ondemand' power govenor': |
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> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:04:17AM +1200, Jamie wrote: |
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> > > Can anyone offer me any ideas on this, a day of Googling has not |
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> > > turned up anything I have found the be useful (although my Google-fu |
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> > > has been proven to be weak before) |
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> > If you built the various govenors as modules you have to modprobe them. |
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> The module name is cpufreq_<governor_name>. In particular, when I was |
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> compiling the ondemand governor as a module it was |
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> at /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.ko |
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> -- |
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> "If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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> it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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> clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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> -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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These are the kernel options i have enabled: |
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Power management options ---> |
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CPU Frequency scaling ---> |
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[*] CPU Frequency scaling |
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<*> 'ondemand' cpufreq governor |
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<*> AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow! |
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[*] ACPI Processor P-States driver |
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I would also suggest checking out the gentoo-wiki entry on PowerNow. [1] |
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Stephen Heuer |
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http://www.aragoth.org/sheuer |
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[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PowerNow! |
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