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From: GoatZilla <goatzilla@gmail.com>
To: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: last alternative : program to consume CPU?!
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:11:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39e348480409091711781f182@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409091321560.6133@marfim.cpad.pucrs.br>

Uhm...

Treat the machine as a dual CPU resource, and load it down with 2 jobs
instead of 1?




On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:35:56 -0300 (BRT), Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto
<stelmar@cpad.pucrs.br> wrote:
> 
> The BIOS of my machine does not support the modification of the CPU speed.
> 
> My problem is that I have a homogeneous cluster composed of 16 machines
> and I need to perform some tests of my application on a heterogeneous
> cluster. So my first option was to change the cpu speed in the BIOS, but
> failed. The second option was to find some support in the linux itself.
> I have found the cpufreq, but failed. My last option is to implement or
> find a program to consume a percentage of CPU. Do you know where I can
> find a good program to perform this task? Or do you know another alternative
> to solve my problem?
> 
> Thank you very much for your attention.
> 
> Marco
> 
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:46:35AM -0300, Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a machine (desktop machine) HP EP-C c10 with a Pentium III
> > > (Coppermine) 1GHz and I'm making some performance tests so I would like
> > > to have the machine processor working at 500 MHz. I have configured the
> > > cpufreq option (kernel 2.6.6) but the cpufreq directory in
> > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 does not exist.
> > ...
> > > I don't know if I have made some mistake or my cpu does not support the
> > > cpufreq. I have tried to modify the clock frequency via BIOS, but such an
> > > option is not available. All I want is to modify the clock frequency. It
> > > does not need be on-the-fly.
> >
> > A desktop Coppermine Pentium III does not support SpeedStep, so no cpufreq
> > support exists. Possibly you can change the CPU speed in your system BIOS.
> >
> >       Dominik
> >
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-10  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09 14:46 cpufreq/ does not exist Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto
2004-09-09 16:13 ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-09-09 16:35   ` last alternative : program to consume CPU?! Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto
2004-09-10  0:11     ` GoatZilla [this message]
2004-09-10  0:27       ` Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto

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