October 26, 201213 yr Is there a way to make the process that reduces CPU clock a bit more relaxed? I have 15% idle showing on Top and my processor bounces very quickly between 800 and 2700 MHz, but is mostly at 800MHz. It does have 44% wait if that factors into it. Sysload is 3.48, 2.98, 2.78 at the moment and CPU is at 800MHz. Running a preclear on a single drive, sabnzbd is active (downloading, not processing) and one SD movie is streaming from the array. I have another recent post regarding the dd process from preclear taking 20-25% cpu by itself. Update: Scaling governor in use was 'ondemand' and is the only governor loaded by default. Ran 'modprob cpufreq_conservative' to load the conservative governor and made it active with 'echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor'. Instead of bouncing incredibly fast from idle to full speed and back down again the conservative is more relaxed in the transitions. Will add to start-up script for persistence. Net effect? Probably just warm fuzzies and an extra kWh or two per year. Just did not make sense to me for idle to be 0.0% and the CPU at 800Mhz with sysloads at 3+. 5.0-rc8a Asus M5A78L-MLX Plus, 8GB DDDR3, Sempron 140
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