Processer on Dell 8600 running less than half speed FC3

IllegalOpertion · #1 15th November 2004, 01:27 AM

I have been fighting with this, hopefully someone else who has a Dell can compare and see if they are having the same issue.

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq yields that my processer is running at 600 MHz, less than half of its 1.5 MHz potential all while plugged in to A/C power.

An echo 150000 > scaling_setspeed in this directory will bump it up to max 1.5 MHz (or so it says) but low and behold 1 minute later its right back down to 600 again.

ACPI is on and running, suspend to ram works and so does my battery applet in the Gnome panel.

rbirdman · #2 15th November 2004, 05:22 AM

Does FC3 think it is offline perhaps?

try
cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state

to see. assuming that this is the place to look in FC3 still.

ady · #3 15th November 2004, 10:37 AM

Does the processor not speed up when you run some heavy task? On my 8600 the processor will run at 600MHz most of the time. It only runs faster if you need it.
I think you may need to try a different tool than cpuspeed if you want some other behaviour.
Do you really want the cpu to run faster on AC? 600MHz is plenty for most things and it keeps the laptop cooler/quieter!

Tenny · #4 13th January 2005, 11:28 PM

I'm running into the same thing. I also have a 8600 w/ a 1.5ghz

It's running at:

Code:

[root@dbazar ~]# cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state
state:                   on-line
[root@dbazar ~]
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 598.086
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2

And I got about 20 Mozilla's open, Thunderbird, Terminal, and a few other programs open, and it never seems to change...

I would prefer it to run at at least 1ghz when the A/C Adapter is in...

mirtux · #5 18th January 2005, 11:45 AM

Hi,
i have an Acer Travelmate 8005 laptop, running the same most of the time at 600MHz.
But have a look at the speed when running, for example updatedb with

Code:

watch "cat /proc/cpuinfo"

or try to install gnome-cpufreq-applet
It must change...

Regards,
MC

rpaller · #6 18th January 2005, 02:27 PM

Do you have the cpuspeed daemon running? Even with a large number of windows open and for the most part idle, the CPU frequency applet in GNOME reports that my CPU is running at 12% or 349MHz. Only when I reload a page in Firefox or do something to spin the disk will CPU spike back to 100%.

If you disable cpuspeed you should find your CPU running at full speed all the time.

mirtux · #7 18th January 2005, 04:10 PM

Hi,
yes as you can find in the other thread, i have cpuspeed running with acpi-cpufreq module. For me is the same, the CPU is normally running at minimum (600MHz) also if i'm running firefox with 30 windows opened (but only reading post) and lots of xterm.

The behaviour i have is the same of yours!

And yes if i stop cpuspeed service the CPU goes back to 100% (1.8GHz).

Regards,
MC