Re: Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-22 Thread Paa Paa
But are you saying that with most desktop mobos one doesn't usually have the different power states available at all? So basically the only means to conserve power is to scale the frequency? Please update your BIOS and try. I updated my Asus P5B Deluxe BIOS with no luck (this latest BIOS is

Re: Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-22 Thread Paa Paa
I'm probably missing something crucial here. So how do I enable power states? I'm using 64-bit Gentoo. My mobo is Asus P5B Deluxe. Otherwise ACPI works fine. The BIOS has to expose this support in ACPI, if it doesn't (which is often the case on desktop boards) you won't get any C-state

Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-22 Thread Paa Paa
For some reason I'm not able to enable processor power states (c1, c2 etc.) for my Core 2 Duo. This is what I get:: cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/info processor id:0 acpi id: 1 bus mastering control: no power management:no throttling control: no limit

Re: Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-22 Thread Paa Paa
But are you saying that with most desktop mobos one doesn't usually have the different power states available at all? So basically the only means to conserve power is to scale the frequency? Please update your BIOS and try. I updated my Asus P5B Deluxe BIOS with no luck (this latest BIOS is

Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-22 Thread Paa Paa
For some reason I'm not able to enable processor power states (c1, c2 etc.) for my Core 2 Duo. This is what I get:: cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/info processor id:0 acpi id: 1 bus mastering control: no power management:no throttling control: no limit

Re: Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-22 Thread Paa Paa
I'm probably missing something crucial here. So how do I enable power states? I'm using 64-bit Gentoo. My mobo is Asus P5B Deluxe. Otherwise ACPI works fine. The BIOS has to expose this support in ACPI, if it doesn't (which is often the case on desktop boards) you won't get any C-state

Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-05 Thread Paa Paa
Mark Lord wrote: This is mostly a problem with the WD Raptor drive, and some other WD drives. I have not yet encountered/noticed the problem with other brands. Sounds like this is a serious bug in the WD firmware. For personal systems, yes. For servers, probably not a bug. In my case the

Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-05 Thread Paa Paa
Mark Lord wrote: This is mostly a problem with the WD Raptor drive, and some other WD drives. I have not yet encountered/noticed the problem with other brands. Sounds like this is a serious bug in the WD firmware. For personal systems, yes. For servers, probably not a bug. In my case the

Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-03 Thread Paa Paa
Q: What conclusion can I make on "hdparm -t" results or can I make any conclusions? Do I really have lower performance with NCQ or not? If I do, is this because of my HD or because of kernel? What IO scheduler are you using? If AS or CFQ, could you try with deadline? I was using CFQ. I now

Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-03 Thread Paa Paa
I'm using Linux 2.6.20.4. I noticed that I get lower SATA hard drive throughput with 2.6.20.4 than with 2.6.19. The reason was that 2.6.20 enables NCQ by defauly (queue_depth = 31/32 instead of 0/32). Transfer rate was measured using "hdparm -t": With NCQ (queue_depth == 31): 50MB/s. Without

Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-03 Thread Paa Paa
I'm using Linux 2.6.20.4. I noticed that I get lower SATA hard drive throughput with 2.6.20.4 than with 2.6.19. The reason was that 2.6.20 enables NCQ by defauly (queue_depth = 31/32 instead of 0/32). Transfer rate was measured using hdparm -t: With NCQ (queue_depth == 31): 50MB/s. Without

Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-03 Thread Paa Paa
Q: What conclusion can I make on hdparm -t results or can I make any conclusions? Do I really have lower performance with NCQ or not? If I do, is this because of my HD or because of kernel? What IO scheduler are you using? If AS or CFQ, could you try with deadline? I was using CFQ. I now