Re: load and power management

2010-04-14 Thread Peter A
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 10:34:08 Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Peter A wrote: > > Am I doing something wrong? My view is pretty simple but the few tests I > > did seemed to all indicate the same thing... > > > > How valuable is reporting the CPU usage if its not really sh

Re: load and power management

2010-04-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 19:51 -0400, Peter A wrote: > Does the load as display with uptime compensate for power management? > I went through some of the kernel code the scheduler and the cpufreq > kernel modules but didn't see anything. Load average (as reported by uptime or ps) is a different anima

Re: load and power management

2010-04-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Peter A wrote: > Am I doing something wrong? My view is pretty simple but the few tests I did > seemed to all indicate the same thing... > > How valuable is reporting the CPU usage if its not really shows how much of > maximum CPU power is used? > Wouldn't it mak

load and power management

2010-04-13 Thread Peter A
Hi, I'm a bit confused on how power management and cpu load (should) work together... I'm not talking about a busy cpu clocking higher and so on but about how system usage is reported when the cpu frequency changes. I run KDE and the CPU meter (systemloadviewer plasmoid) behaves very erratica