Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-08-05 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:22:12AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:27:15AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: [...] Hmm, maybe

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
Also on the D5* atoms on FreeBSD it would be nice to check that it actually works as advertised, by running a few cpu-bound processes (i.e. for (;;); ) and measuring the watts being burned at different frequencies. That's the real proof that the frequency scaling is doing

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-08-02 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:27:15AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: [...] Hmm, maybe i8254 is not working at all. Could you post following information:

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-30 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:02:58AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: As Brian Mastenbrook pointed out in a comment on the digest, the Atom should support P4TCC: http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2012/07/24/10128.html Check your CPU features in dmesg. It should show the TM feature, as it

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-30 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:59:35AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Sepherosa Ziehau sepher...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:44:06AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Mon, Jul

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-30 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:59:35AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Sepherosa Ziehau sepher...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon,

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-25 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:46:41 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I bought an Atom based Intel D525MW board. DragonFly release is running on that system. But I have a few minor issues. The CPU is getting somewhat warm (about 55 degrees celsius). [...] As Brian Mastenbrook

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-25 Thread william opensource4you
All, just my 2 cents :-) since one week, I'm just installing dbsd on an hp-mini: Atom N455. I've no CPU related issues. here sysctl out put: hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.available: 1666 1333 1000 hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.members: cpu0(1000) hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.select: 1000

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-25 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:05:54 +0200, william opensource4you william.o...@gmail.com wrote: All, just my 2 cents :-) since one week, I'm just installing dbsd on an hp-mini: Atom N455. I've no CPU related issues. Yeah, N* Atoms support Enhanced SpeedStep, while D* Atoms don't. Sascha

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-23 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:44:06AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:54 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 08:31:41PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-23 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:28:14AM +, Adrian Bocaniciu wrote: Intel Atom processors, unlike more expensive Intel processors, do not support frequency scaling. See for example the specifications for Atom D525 at: http://ark.intel.com/products/49490/ where it is stated that Enhanced

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-23 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:24:38 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:44:06AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:54 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-23 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:44:06AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:54 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, Jul

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-23 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Sepherosa Ziehau sepher...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:44:06AM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Sun, 22

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:46:41 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: [...] Also there is no sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.select available, so I guess powerd is also running not properly and the CPU frequency is not scaled in any way. After looking into the dmesg output, I guess some

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-22 Thread Sven Gaerner
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 08:31:41PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:46:41 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: [...] Also there is no sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.select available, so I guess powerd is also running not properly and the CPU frequency is not scaled in

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:54 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 08:31:41PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:46:41 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: [...] Also there is no sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.px_dom0.select available, so I guess

Re: frequency scaling on D525MW not working properly

2012-07-22 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:54 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 08:31:41PM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:46:41 +0200, Sven Gaerner sgaer...@gmx.net wrote: [...]