CPU throttleing problem

Stubzz · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 28

..with a twist. It works fine and I can manually set the speed using speedfreq. however it keep sslowing the CPU down no matter what! I got a 2500XP processer that runs at 1862Mhz, if I set the laptop up for performance the speed drops to ~1200Mhz after just a few minutes. A right pain if I'm trying to do anything CPU heavy, eg compiling.

basic System info:
Multivision Solus 1030 laptop
AMB Barton 2500XP+ cpu
gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.3_r1
speedfreq
cpu scaling support in the bios

Any ideas how to stop it, thinking of killing the cpu scalling support atm.

Earthwings · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject:

Try to examine if speedfreq is the cause. Running "speedfreq -m" will be a good way, start a compile or anything else and watch for changes.

Stubzz · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 28

If I run that command while using the performance setting according to the program the speed doesn't change, however accordin to x86info -mhz it does get slower. I know for a fact that it's slowing dow because the compiles are taking much longer than before I had speed scaling working. When set to dynamic however the speeds generally tally up ok.

Im confused now :/