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From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about not saving power
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:38:01 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812241138.01961.patrakov@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1230099417.21770.4.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:57 you wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 10:50 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > My question is: what are my options (like kernel parameters) to disable
> > power- saving features, other than running such CPU-eating process
> > continuously?
>
> You can set your performance governor to "performance".  If you're using
> KDE, in the lower right corner of your display is an icon for that.  I
> don't know what Gnome looks like.  Anyway, you can set it manually as
> well...
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors

I don't have the cpufreq driver loaded normally, so these files don't exist. 
And this is my home desktop, not the corporate laptop. After modprobing 
"cpufreq-acpi", the file does appear and contains "performance". The tone 
doesn't disappear, though.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-24  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-24  5:50 Question about not saving power Alexander E. Patrakov
     [not found] ` <1230099417.21770.4.camel@marge.simson.net>
2008-12-24  6:38   ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2008-12-24  7:02 ` Robert Hancock
2008-12-25  7:07   ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2008-12-25 16:16     ` Robert Hancock

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