Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:25:51 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" <ross.penner@gmail.com> To: "Erik Cederstrand" <erik@cederstrand.dk> Cc: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support Message-ID: <f80199c40710241225r7fac535ana6686545d5f1c9b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f80199c40710240929n4508c153k8c5afa8da4a7332b@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.t0orhzxkq910fd@localhost> <471EF23F.7040506@cederstrand.dk> <f80199c40710240929n4508c153k8c5afa8da4a7332b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/24/07, Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> 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?
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