From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mattia Dongili Subject: Re: CPU throttled down to 800 after 15-30mins Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:41:51 +0900 Message-ID: <20110207214151.GC18545@kamineko.org> References: <4D4DAB6A.6090807@gmail.com> <20110206044123.GB2703@kamineko.org> <201102072055.38707.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201102072055.38707.trenn@suse.de> Sender: cpufreq-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Thomas Renninger Cc: J Webster , cpufreq@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2011 05:41:23 Mattia Dongili wrote: ... > > > So I changed it from 70-100 but on the last try the cpu did not > > > reach 70 and it still throttled it back to 800. > > > > Try to increase cpufreqd verbosity, it will tell you which and why a > > specific rule was selected. From there you can work on modifying your > > rules to better match your usage. > Also check whether your BIOS is the reason, if you get 800000 here: > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/bios_limit > you should check your BIOS settings. Good catch, after a bit of private chatting it turns out that the BIOS may be the reason why frequency is locked at 800MHz -- mattia :wq!