Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

Ken Moffat
2005-07-12T11:35:43Z

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Daniel J Blueman wrote:

> I find the ondemand governor works as expected with 2.6.12 on my
> Athlon64 Winchester [1]; as soon as I bzip2 a file, processor freq is
> pinned at 1.8GHz and drops to 1GHz when idle.
>

Thanks, it seems to be a niceness problem - if I run from an xterm as a
user, the processes get a niceness of 10. If the bzip2 process gets
reniced to 0, all is sweetness. So, either I have to not use X, or
stick with 2.6.11.

Ken
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