I have posted the results below.
It took about 25mins before the givernor throttled the speed back. The full fan
speed did not even come and now I cannot change it back to 1.73.
The fan successfully controlled the temperature down so why throttle it
afterwards?
I am running a video, FF, Thunderbird, a disk usage analyser, and system
testing util to try and load it. The fan only comes on at above 60oC and even
then it's only half fan speed (fairly quiet), not the full fan speed that I had
in the past on Windows.
So, how come when it is set to ondemand, it throttles it to 800 when it gets to
this temperature and prevents me from changing it to performance?
[code]
j@j-Inspiron-9300:~$ sudo cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.73 GHz
available frequency steps: 1.73 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.07 GHz, 800 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave,
performance
current policy: [B]frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.73 GHz.
The governor ondemand may decide which speed to use
within this range.[/B]
current CPU frequency is 800 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
cpufreq stats: 1.73 GHz:28.76%, 1.33 GHz:1.14%, 1.07 GHz:1.28%, 800
MHz:68.83% (6017)
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:20:04 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 39 C
[B]{switched to performance in the middle here}[/B]
{now fully on 1.72GHz}
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.73 GHz
available frequency steps: 1.73 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.07 GHz, 800 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave,
performance
current policy: [B]frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.73 GHz[/B].
The governor performance may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1.73 GHz.
cpufreq stats: 1.73 GHz:49.04%, 1.33 GHz:0.71%, 1.07 GHz:0.81%, 800
MHz:49.44% (8722)
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:29:33 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 45 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:32:14 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 56 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:33:51 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 57 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:35:25 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 56 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:37:58 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 62 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:39:41 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 65 C
[B]{half fan speed comes on here but not full speed yet}[/B]
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:43:14 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 57 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:44:32 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 59 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:46:22 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 69 C
[B] {half fan on again}[/B]
[B]
{throttled back here to 800 and will not increase}[/B]
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date
Sat Feb 5 10:51:45 CET 2011
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature: 43 C
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cpu-freq info
cpu-freq: command not found
j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.73 GHz
available frequency steps: 1.73 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.07 GHz, 800 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave,
performance
current policy: [B]frequency should be within 800 MHz and 800 MHz.
