howto: disable cpu frequency scaling the easy way

[vinnywright]

Re: howto: disable cpu frequency scaling the easy way

Worth noting - at least here - Ubuntu cpuinfo mis-reports CPU freq. My Q6600-B0 is at 3.06 and it still reports 2.4 even though speed tests verify the overclock.

what kind of speed test ........I would like to run it.

VINNY

[dibl]

Re: howto: disable cpu frequency scaling the easy way

Right.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

shows the Intel firmware output -- it doesn't actually measure anything. So mine reports the factory defaults for the i7 950.

[oshunluvr]

Re: howto: disable cpu frequency scaling the easy way

I usually run mprime but I hear super_pi works well too.

[wizard10000]

Re: howto: disable cpu frequency scaling the easy way

Right - my Asus mobo will let me overclock, and I've got an overclock defined at 4.2GHz, on air cooling. But that is incompatible with KDE settings, apparently. Of late, I've settled for the KDE settings. If I ever get back to encoding DVDs, I'll want my 4.2GHz overclock -- otherwise it doesn't matter for practical purposes.

I don't think it's KDE - processor scaling moved to the kernel several kernel builds ago.

[vinnywright]

Re: howto: disable cpu frequency scaling the easy way

Right.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

shows the Intel firmware output -- it doesn't actually measure anything. So mine reports the factory defaults for the i7 950.

? when I was using it to check what was happening it started with 933.00 then after downing the edits to /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils it showed what I had changed the minimum to .......then wile recoding it showed 3 different ranges from the min to the max.

VINNY