[PLUG] cpufreq governor selection

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sun Nov 12 02:38:33 UTC 2017


Lol, I can probably fix the battery problem. You should give it to me :-)

On Nov 11, 2017 6:36 PM, "Tomas Kuchta" <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can give you old, unused 4 core 64b ASRock Q1900DC mini-itx board. It
> takes 10W from 12-19V power brick, it is 64bit and probably faster to
> replace than you problematic piece of HW.
>
> I do not use it because the battery keeping cmos ram and rtc is not
> working. So, it needs screen and keyboard to hit F1 in order to come out of
> power loss. That is not useful for closet server board. Otherwise it works
> just fine. Maybe it just need new battery, I don't know.
>
> Tomas
>
> On Nov 11, 2017 5:37 PM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 11/11/2017 09:19 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > >   Trying to build a couple of packages here on my 32-bit, 2-core i686
> AMD
> > > Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor causes a CPU overheat shutdown of the
> > > system.
> > > Building one large package, ATLAS (a linear algebra library), is
> > > recommended
> > > to set cpufreq to 'performance' which fixes the govenor at the highest
> > > speed. The normal governor is 'ondemand' which sets clock speed
> > > depending on
> > > load.
> > >
> > --snip---
> > >
> > >   Your thoughts and experiences will be helpful.
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> >
> > If you are getting CPU overheating, esp. with this Athlon II X2, which ,
> > you will need to look at defective case fans, CPU fan or reseat the CPU
> > heat sink with fresh CPU paste. The ones I had here I used to pushed
> > push hard with seti at home, climatepredictions at home, einstain at home etc
> > BOINC projects, and yes games, and never had any significant heat issues.
> >
> >  AMD CPUs run much cooler than the typical Intel CPUs of the same era.
> > Athlon II X2 255 have a TPD of only 65W. the cpufrew module just
> > overrides the built in automatic CPU speed settings and is only useful
> > to safe power (lower electric bill).
> >
> > You should be able to run that CPU all day at full blast without
> > overheating.  Check your cooling fans and CPU heat sink.
> >
> > -Ed
> >
> >
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