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DateSat, 7 Feb 2009 11:55:45 -0800
FromArjan van de Ven <>
SubjectRe: cpu frequency maximized even for a niced job w/ v2.6.29-rc3
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:30:10 +0100
Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> wrote:

> I'm wondering, why my ThinkPad T41 goes from 600 MHz to 1.7 GHz if I
> run this job :
>
> $> while [[ true ]]; do nice -3 factor 273244676154386297; done
>
> under v2.6.29-rc3-562-geda58a8.
>
> Former version stays at min frequency (600 MHz).

The kernel has defaulted to this for I think a really long time;
maybe your "former version" was a distribution kernel with patches?

Either way this is a simple tunable in sysfs; and to be honest,
going to the full speed is very often the right behavior so as a
default it is quite sane...


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