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From: Christian Flamm <alcc@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: I haven't been able to set the chosen policy for CPU0
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:18:25 +0200
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>>I think I can now reproduce that misbehaviour. I happens when
>>both of my cores
>>are at 100% =A0- than min- *and* max-frequency fall down to
>>minimum (1000000Hz)

> Looks like the CPUs are being driver to lower freq due to temperature
> limits. CPUs being busy is increasing the temp and they go to lower freq
> until they reach the lower temp. Looking at
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*
> when this happens can confirm this.

First of all, thx for the reply. =


Before, at, and after the freqency falls doen to minimum:

$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/state
state: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ok

So its something else.

Regards, Christian.