On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 12:00 -0700, Eric Saxe wrote: > Eric Saxe wrote: > >> See: > >> > >> CR 3883663 b122 does not scale cpu frequency > > I upgraded my desktop to build 121, and when running X I see the same > > thing. There's earlier discussion on the list about some runaway Gnome > > activity which is keeping things busy...I haven't seen that isolated > > yet (so I'm taking a look). > > > > poll-mode CPU is sampling based, adjusting frequencies based on > > utilization over the sampling interval. event-mode (the default) is > > more responsive...it filters out t > > I killed the desktop print manager, which by itself was chewing up about > 1% of CPU, and this also caused svc.configd (which was also consuming ~ > 2.2%) to calm down as well. My desktop is now at the lowest P-state > nearly 100% of the time when idle now...
As I mention in 6883663, my system is mostly idle. I resolved the print manager issue a while ago on my laptop, yet my CPU is still pegged at 100%. I brought this up a few weeks ago in the thread entitled "pm confusion and build 122" with no resolution. -Seb
