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Message-Id: <200812241138.01961.patrakov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:38:01 +0500
From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about not saving power
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:57 you wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 10:50 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > My question is: what are my options (like kernel parameters) to disable
> > power- saving features, other than running such CPU-eating process
> > continuously?
>
> You can set your performance governor to "performance". If you're using
> KDE, in the lower right corner of your display is an icon for that. I
> don't know what Gnome looks like. Anyway, you can set it manually as
> well...
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
I don't have the cpufreq driver loaded normally, so these files don't exist.
And this is my home desktop, not the corporate laptop. After modprobing
"cpufreq-acpi", the file does appear and contains "performance". The tone
doesn't disappear, though.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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