On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I find the ondemand governor works as expected with 2.6.12 on my > Athlon64 Winchester [1]; as soon as I bzip2 a file, processor freq is > pinned at 1.8GHz and drops to 1GHz when idle. >
Thanks, it seems to be a niceness problem - if I run from an xterm as a user, the processes get a niceness of 10. If the bzip2 process gets reniced to 0, all is sweetness. So, either I have to not use X, or stick with 2.6.11. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/