SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

[Andriy Gapon]

on 23/09/2010 15:37 Daniel O'Connor said the following:
> 
> On 23/09/2010, at 21:26, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 23/09/2010 11:26 Alexander Motin said the following:
>>> PS: AFAIK dev.cpu.0.freq won't report you if frequency was lowered due
>>> to overheating.
>>
>> I think that you are correct about this.
>> And last I checked we simply ignored thermal throttling interrupt.
> 
> I could not get cpufreq to show a lower frequency when I tried overheating a CPU even though the performance dropped.
> 
> It would be really nice if there was some notification of CPU throttling :)

cpufreq is not designed to monitor what is going on in cpu.
cpufreq knows what cpu supports and knows host to set a certain frequency
(performance level rather).


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Andriy Gapon