Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Frequency control may not be relevant on that platform. Try installing the intel-pcm package; then # kldload cpuctl # pcm.x 1 Then paste some of that in here. Let's see if the CPU is idling some other way. -adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Frequency control may not be relevant on that platform. Try installing the intel-pcm package; then # kldload cpuctl # pcm.x 1 Then paste some of that in here. Let's see if the CPU is idling some other way.

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:26:40 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 16:28:49 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: [..] Try changing the options

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:01:16 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:26:40 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:26:40 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 16:28:49 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 May 2015 17:40:26 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: [..] It's an Intel Atom running amd64 version of FreeBSD stable/10: FreeBSD firewall.rdnzl.info 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #1 r283292: Sat May

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm, no thermal monitoring and no speedstep. Could be dangerous/fun. What's the output of sysctl dev.cpu.0 ? -adrian On 23 May 2015 at 07:40, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:01:16 +0300,

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 17:40:26 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: [..] It's an Intel Atom running amd64 version of FreeBSD stable/10: FreeBSD

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-23 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:01:16 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:26:40 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Ivan Klymenko
Fri, 22 May 2015 09:33:15 +0200 Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com написав: Hi, I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping below 1200MHz. It used to be able to go down to 150MHz, if I am not mistaken. I'd like it to go down to 600MHz via powerd, like it used to go. This

CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping below 1200MHz. It used to be able to go down to 150MHz, if I am not mistaken. I'd like it to go down to 600MHz via powerd, like it used to go. This is a month's old 10-STABLE. [nik@moby ~]$ sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, The whole point of throttling on modern hardware isn't to get really low clock rates, it's to deal with being out of thermal envelope. But, the modern intel cores will do that for you without OS involvement. So,

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 05/22/15 09:42, Ivan Klymenko wrote: Try changing the options in /boot/device.hints hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=0 hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=0 Thanks Ivan, now it works as it did before! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:33:15 +0200 Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com написав: Hi, I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping below 1200MHz. It used to be able to go down to 150MHz, if I am not mistaken.

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The whole point of throttling on modern hardware isn't to get really low clock rates, it's to deal with being out of thermal envelope. But, the modern intel cores will do that for you without OS involvement. So, you don't have to actually use p4tcc and it may actually configure your

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 22 May 2015 16:28:49 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:33:15 +0200 Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com ÿÿ: Hi, I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping below 1200MHz.

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 22.05.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Nikos Vassiliadis: Hi, I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping below 1200MHz. It used to be able to go down to 150MHz, if I am not mistaken. I'd like it to go down to 600MHz via powerd, like it used to go. This is a month's old

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 16:28:49 +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:33:15 +0200 Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com яя: Hi, I just