On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 19:10 -0200, Rafael Antognolli wrote: > Hi, > > I was using E17 with the new Ubuntu 8.10 and realized that the cpu > frequency wasn't scaling. Then I checked that with gnome and even > without a window manager and it worked fine. > > Well, it seems that E always starts its children applications with > nice +1, and Ubuntu has the file > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice_load set to > 1, so even with 100% cpu load the clock doesn't scale up (if the > application consuming the cpu was started from E, thus with nice +1). > > In the file e/src/bin/e_main.c these lines do the nice: > /* set all execced stuff to pri 1 - nice. make this config later? */ > ecore_exe_run_priority_set(1); > > In order to do the frequency scaling work in Ubuntu these lines need > to be removed, or an "echo 0" should be done to that file.
Well, at least now I know why the ondemand governor didn't seem to do it's job. I'll see about making this a proper config. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
