From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 19:25:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F9516A418 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8D013C4A3 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so316764pyb for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:25:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hAfChPWBpPNJhA7bqeX5oQZjdzwN5QhFdTb3BGuD7g0=; b=FGaLzPkqyg6CVPibpqfYxvqbFpDXd94g9524kQ+D3bQ3YapXMF0zbxGoEnYZMUvx7XZg21IxB+ZmaYN49rRKoMxsQC8wkxUZ193zy81YzJHabywVh2KbVHSQsAJnmbVb8CtxBGEQA0RUbsFI2dIy71pGMPB8BzHLjbj6cB87zNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BNJOA6Y903JAHnDyIfOl5wVV52FJaEdSk+FhEghWfhmQASgnB443BtJPQrNiqX/Sl4njD3RuyyQEvRduR3Gbx02278Jsxt77s3RSqCVGzDqPq1NURw/ynNT4oB9dF7iU2ffELdbAxl0SLoJnw6+e3wM28x5+t52WzjKIssZKbjg= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr1075755pym.1193253951422; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.64.14 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:25:51 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" To: "Erik Cederstrand" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <471EF23F.7040506@cederstrand.dk> Cc: User questions Subject: Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:58 -0000 On 10/24/07, Ross Penner wrote: > On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > > > > Ross Penner wrote: > > > Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In > > > examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates > > > that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip > > > have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will > > > specifying the chipset as C3 help or hinder my environment? > > > > I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you > > need the C7 support? > > I probably will. I just thought I'd try and see if I could stay on stable > first. > > > My second question is in regards to the CPU frequency control. I've > > > seen that the C7 gets support for cpufreq in 7 current, but I'm > > > running 6. Without support in cpufreq, what speed would my processor > > > be running at? I've always thought my performance has been lackluster > > > so I suspect it's running at the lower clock speed. > > > > If cpufreq/powerd is not active, your processor is running full-speed. > > You can check this with "sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq" if it's available on > > your system. > > sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to > work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system is mostly idle, It outputs '198' and when I put a high cpu load on it, it outputs '397'. I'm not exactly sure what this means as I'm hoping it doesn't refer to the MHz. It's a 1.2GHz processor. Can somebody help me interpret this result?