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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:20:48 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Henrik Friedrichsen <hrkfdn@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature
Message-ID:  <200909091020.51049.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20090909030624.Y89278@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <200909082209.37454.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <cbbf66600909080652qa6a90cckff95e6d18561be24@mail.gmail.com> <20090909030624.Y89278@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the
>  > > case? ie is there a way to be informed if throttling has
>  > > occurred?
>
> Might be easier to hack powerd.c as an existing pretty lightweight
> way of monitoring CPU freq (to log or signal on detected freq lowered
> by throttling, say?) even if you don't need/want it to actually vary
> freq according to load, eg setting idle/busy shift factors to
> 'never/always'?

Hmm, that could work.

It seems odd to me that there is no direct way the BIOS can notify the=20
OS it's throttling the CPU though.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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