From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 08:43:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C931065679 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:43:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679388FC0A for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5889 invoked by uid 399); 23 Aug 2010 08:43:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 23 Aug 2010 08:43:14 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C7234A1.3050108@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:43:13 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100807 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andriy Gapon References: <4C71E858.90009@FreeBSD.org> <4C721334.1050000@icyb.net.ua> <4C7219B2.4070303@FreeBSD.org> <4C722209.1020405@icyb.net.ua> <4C72297D.90104@FreeBSD.org> <4C722ADD.1030103@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4C722ADD.1030103@icyb.net.ua> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: runaway intr problems: powerd and/or hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest related X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:43:15 -0000 On 08/23/2010 01:01, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Speaking of which you seem to have too many powerd levels. D'oh! > What cpufreq drivers are in use on your system? The only one I have is the cpufreq that's in GENERIC. > Maybe you'd want to stick to just one of them? > E.g.: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-March/055666.html Ok, so it seems that you're suggesting to disable throttling, so I added the following to /boot/loader.conf: hint.p4tcc.0.disabled="1" hint.p4tcc.1.disabled="1" hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1" hint.acpi_throttle.1.disabled="1" Not sure the .1.'s are necessary, but I wanted to be thorough. With that I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2333/31000 2000/26000 1667/22000 1333/17000 1000/13000 dev.est.0.freq_settings: 2333/31000 2000/26000 1667/22000 1333/17000 1000/13000 dev.est.1.freq_settings: 2333/31000 2000/26000 1667/22000 1333/17000 1000/13000 hopefully that's more in line with what it should be? I'd really like to be able to at least use powerd since it does seem to help with heat when the system is idle (and by extension, power consumption as well). Unless you say differently when I get up tomorrow I'll try this configuration for a little while and see how it goes. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso