On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the > > > case? ie is there a way to be informed if throttling has > > > occurred? > > Might be easier to hack powerd.c as an existing pretty lightweight > way of monitoring CPU freq (to log or signal on detected freq lowered > by throttling, say?) even if you don't need/want it to actually vary > freq according to load, eg setting idle/busy shift factors to > 'never/always'?
Hmm, that could work. It seems odd to me that there is no direct way the BIOS can notify the OS it's throttling the CPU though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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