On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:09 +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > package: powernowd > version: 0.97-1 > severity: normal > > It seems that powernowd does not take into account the current system cpu > load, only user cpu load seems to be considered. > > E.g. VMware has a significant amount of computing load running in system > space. Even if the cpu is 100% busy, if the user cpu load part is lower than > the threshold (by default 80%) then powernowd won't scale up the cpu > frequency.
Reading the source, system time is always included in the calculation. There is an option to decide whether to include or exclude nice'd processes, but user, system, irq, and softirq time is always included. Perhaps something else is going on? Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
