Eric, thanks for this workaround. Yes this works and it works also after suspend/resume. So I see now in powertop the frequency changing between 800 and 2001 Mhz in event mode.
Thanks. ... and if 111b will be the final build for osol2009.06 this workaround could be part of the release notes ... Detlef Eric Saxe schrieb, On 21.05.09 20:17: > Hi Detlef, Mark, > > Mark Haywood wrote: >> Detlef Drewanz wrote: >> Why? Given what I have seen I don't believe that this worked correctly >> in 2008.11 either. >> >>> >>> Maybe there is some quick workaround to set with mdb some value ... ? > Try adding this to /etc/system: > set cpupm_ti_gov_multiple=100 > > ..and then run in event mode. This will make the system more aggressive > about power managing the CPUs despite ambient background activity. I > have a fix going back shortly (today?) to address this. Does this help? > > Thanks, > -Eric -- Detlef Drewanz Senior Systems Engineer/OS Ambassador Sun Microsystems GmbH Phone: (+49 30) 747096 856 Komturstrasse 18a mailto:detlef.drewanz at sun.com D-12099 Berlin http://blogs.sun.com/solarium --- Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder,Wolfgang Engels,Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
