Re: debugging sluggish CPU frequency transitions

2014-11-23 Thread Timothy Redmond
However sometimes the computer takes a very long time (20 seconds to -- I think -- 15 minutes or more) to react to a change in the load. I have run commands like "stress --cpu 1" or "stress --cpu 8" and watched i7z. When the governor is powersave it may stay at 800MHz and when the governor

Re: debugging sluggish CPU frequency transitions

2014-11-13 Thread Timothy Redmond
On 11/13/2014 02:23 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 11/13/2014 04:52 AM, Timothy Redmond wrote: I have a Thinkpad W520 computer (4270CTO) and I am running Fedora 20 and keeping its packages up to date. Often when I am working the cpu frequency transitions beautifully and the computer is very res

Re: debugging sluggish CPU frequency transitions

2014-11-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/13/2014 04:52 AM, Timothy Redmond wrote: > > I have a Thinkpad W520 computer (4270CTO) and I am running Fedora 20 and > keeping its packages up to date. Often when I am working the cpu frequency > transitions beautifully and the computer is very responsive. I have run some > programs tha

debugging sluggish CPU frequency transitions

2014-11-12 Thread Timothy Redmond
I have a Thinkpad W520 computer (4270CTO) and I am running Fedora 20 and keeping its packages up to date. Often when I am working the cpu frequency transitions beautifully and the computer is very responsive. I have run some programs that take a long time (hours to days) and have watched the