Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-21 Thread Craig McLean
cool laptop, but that was definitely a bug in the way Linux was managing power on that laptop. -Original Message- From: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf Of Gustin Johnson Sent: April-21-11 2:28 AM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Freq

Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-21 Thread Gustin Johnson
That link was Android specific, but it does a good job of showing you around some of the cpufreq and VDD interfaces present in sysfs On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > /proc is like ifconfig, it has been marked deprecated since 2.4, but > shows no actual signs of going anywh

Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-21 Thread Gustin Johnson
/proc is like ifconfig, it has been marked deprecated since 2.4, but shows no actual signs of going anywhere. Anyway, the less friendly (but technically more accurate version) can be found at: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq IIRC it is expressed in Hz You may want to look h

Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-20 Thread Mel Walters
I have installed cpufrequtils and cpufreqd on my system. cpufrequtils gives you these commands: cpufreq-info -c 0 cpufreq-info -c 1 cpufreq-info -c 2 cpufreq-info -c 3 and cpufreqd-get -l looking at this has shown me it is not working correctly, I need to look further. (needs configuration or repa

Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-20 Thread Gustin Johnson
From the CLI: watch -n 2 "grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo" If you have a GUI, just about all of the desktop environments have applets for this, I know that Gnome, KDE, and XFCE do, I would imagine that most of them do. If not there is always the old standby of gkrellm should fit the bill. On Wed, Apr 20

Re: [clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-20 Thread simon
> Hello. > > Is there a way to know in real time what is happening to the clock speed > of > your CPU. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10. I don't mind doing a tail -f on some log > file if that is what it takes. > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ will tell you a hell of a lot. Simon

[clug-talk] Linxu CPU Frequency Scaling

2011-04-20 Thread Craig McLean
Hello. Is there a way to know in real time what is happening to the clock speed of your CPU. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10. I don't mind doing a tail -f on some log file if that is what it takes. Craig. ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://cl