on 27/08/2010 19:19 Doug Barton said the following: > Yes, it improved things greatly. I first ran with just powerd for several > hours > and that worked fine. The next day I was able to use powerd and cx_lowest=C2 > for > the better part of a day (including watching a few flash videos). By the end > of > the day intr started to run away again, so not out of the woods yet, but at > least > this shows we're going in the right direction. Also, while poking around in > the > BIOS settings I noticed in one of the "information only" screens that I don't > usually visit one line about the "minimum cpu speed" is 1.00 GHz, which the > sysctl > output above seems to verify. So where the throttling code was getting all > those > other numbers I don't know. > > Meanwhile I've actually not been running FreeBSD for most of this week I've > been > working on re-partitioning my new disk and running ubuntu. So 2 interesting > pieces > of information there, first the "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" for the gnome > that > comes with ubuntu never goes below 1 GHz, so that bit seems extra verified. > Second, I can watch all the flash videos I want while doing other stuff in the > background (like restoring the backups of my data) without any problems, so > add > that to windows in terms of OS' that work on this same hardware. Now that I > have > finally figured out how to boot windows, linux, and 2 FreeBSDs on the same > disk > I'll be able to set up 7-stable i386 and 9-current amd64 to see how they > compare > to the 9-current i386 I was using previously; so I should have more > information in > a few days.
Cool! Meanwhile can you double-check what timers does Linux use there? (No idea how to do that, especially if it's NO_HZ kernel). -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
