Tim: >> I recently got a laptop with a multi-core CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo), so I >> decided to have a quick look at some of the things related to that. >> >> I tried the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet for the Gnome taskbar, >> but it errored-out saying that it couldn't be used. That didn't sound >> right, so I had a look through the service configuration, and noticed >> that the cpuspeed and irqbalance daemons were stopped, despite being set >> to start. >> >> Starting them worked without any errors, so it wasn't as if they *can't* >> be run (such as when they're set to start on a single-core system). >> They just didn't start, for some unknown reason, when the system boots >> up. Dotan Cohen: > I've got the same CPU in my Dell Inspiron. In both Fedora 6 (I could > not install 7 on this machine) and Ubuntu Feisty, the KPowerManager > app works fine, including CPU scaling. I don't know how to check the > daemons, but apps that perform CPU scaling apparently work just fine. service cpuspeed status service irqbalance status As far as I can tell, here, the CPU will always run at full speed if the cpuspeed daemon isn't running. After playing around, I see that cpuspeed is not started at boot time, yet it is set to do so (on run levels 3, 4 & 5). There's no error message, it's just ignored. But if I telinit between run levels, it does start up. Darned if I can see what the problem is. The init scripts appear to have the right permissions and contexts, there are start scripts in the appropriate rcX.d directories. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
