From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 10:25:41 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 29F1710656A4; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:25:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410528FC1C; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id NAA17443; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:25:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Oow7u-0002lf-BQ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:25:38 +0300 Message-ID: <4C7792A1.9090909@icyb.net.ua> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:25:37 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100822 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton 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> <4C7234A1.3050108@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C7234A1.3050108@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:25:41 -0000 on 23/08/2010 11:43 Doug Barton said the following: > 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. So, how did this go? Did the change make any difference? -- Andriy Gapon