Re: cpufreq_conservative on Lenny AMD64?
s. keeling wrote:
> I've been fighting with this for weeks, trying to learn everything I
> need to know. Unfortunately, I don't appear to be getting anywhere.
>
> This box is an HP Pavilion dv4, AMD64. Lenny mostly runs great on it
> (better than Sidux :-), however it's always running hot. The fan is
> always on. I'd like to have this thing ramp its CPU frequency back to
> its minimum when CPU load is close to zero.
>
> CPU load is barely ticking over on this thing in both cores, yet it's
> running at 71 C in TZ01. How do I get it to ramp down its CPU Hz? It
> doesn't need to be running at 2.x GHz, so why is it? It should ramp
> up to that level when the OS has stuff to do, yes? Am I
> misunderstanding something basic here?
>
> I've been through /etc/default fixing stuff there. I've fought with
> /etc/cpufreqd.conf, to no result. "Restarting CPU Frequency daemon:
> cpufreqd failed!" Ideas? I would expect this machine to be new
> enough to handle cpufreq's latest abilities.
>
> (1) [root] infidel /root_ lsmod | grep cpu
> cpufreq_powersave 1856 0
> cpufreq_userspace 3172 0
> cpufreq_stats 3776 0
> cpufreq_ondemand 6476 0
> freq_table 4224 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
> cpufreq_conservative 5960 0
>
> Thanks for enlightenment, if you have it.
>
I can't help beyond what others have posted. However, I had until
recently, an Acer AMD64 laptop which had perennial overheating
problems. Over the three years I had it I sent it back to Acer twice
but never really got a resolution. I came to the conclusion that the
non_Turion AMD64 chips aren't suited to a laptop environment although it
didn't seem to get as hot running windows. It would shut itself down if
I had too many Firefox windows open. Eventually, it became too much of
an issue and I replaced it with a Thinkpad.
Regards
Clive
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