On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:11 -0400, Ryan Lynch wrote: > As I understand it, a kernel ACPI facility called "PPC", related to > how processors express their capabilities to the OS, is faulty, or the > machine BIOS is faulty. Either way, this PPC facility is incorrectly > warning the CPU Frequency scaling facility that the CPU is running too > fast, which causes the scaling facility to slow down unnecessarily. > > This requires a kernel or BIOS update to fix, but there is a decent > workaround: Set the 'processor' module parameter called 'ignore_ppc' > from the default '0' value to '1'. At runtime, you can set it via the > R/W SysFS node '/sys/module/processor/parameters/ignore_ppc'. At boot > time, use the option 'processor.ignore_ppc=1'--I added this to > 'grub.conf'. That sounds rather like ignore the problem rather than fix the problem (move the detection threshold, or correct the temperature monitor scaling so it provides accurate results). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
