Dear list, after upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 on a Compaq R3000Z AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8 GHz), the frequency setting seems messed up. The machine runs in quasi-stationary workstation mode with a batch system, so I'd like to be the cpu frequency to be at maximum. After creating a powersave scheme setting POWERSAVE_CPUFREQUENCY="performance" all was fine in 9.2, 1.8 GHz as desired. In 9.3 three the following weird effects take place: 1. After boot up, the frequency is 800 MHz 2. /etc/init.d/powersaved restart causes the frequency to go up to 1800 MHz 3. When a process in the batch system is running (in nice 18), the frequency stays up. 4. When another job with no nice is executed, the frequency returns to 800 MHz after this job is finished. The cpu-temperature is about 65 C when under load, about 50 C when idle (@1.8 GHz). What's going on here? Thanks and cheers, Peter. My /etc/sysconfig/powersave/cpufreq looks like this: POWERSAVE_CPUFREQD_MODULE="powernow-k8" POWERSAVE_CPUFREQD_MODULE_OPTS="" POWERSAVED_CPU_HIGH_LIMIT="80" POWERSAVED_CPU_HYSTERESIS="5" POWERSAVED_CPU_IDLE_TIMEOUT="10" POWERSAVED_DYNAMIC_LOW_CPU_LIMIT="25" POWERSAVED_CONSIDER_NICE="yes" POWERSAVED_JUMP_CPU_FREQ_MAX_LIMIT="70" My scheme hegel:/etc/sysconfig/powersave/scheme_BatchProc looks thus: POWERSAVE_SCHEME_NAME="BatchProc" POWERSAVE_SCHEME_DESCRIPTION="Scheme to run CPU full speed all the time." WERSAVE_CPUFREQUENCY="performance" POWERSAVE_ALLOW_THROTTLING="no" POWERSAVE_MAX_THROTTLING="50" POWERSAVE_DISK_STANDBY_MODE="performance" POWERSAVE_DISK_ACOUSTIC="performance" POWERSAVE_USER_INPUT_TIMEOUT="100" POWERSAVE_ACTION_USER_INPUT_TIMEOUT="screen_saver" POWERSAVE_COOLING_POLICY="active" POWERSAVE_ALWAYS_THROTTLE="no" POWERSAVE_DISABLE_DISPLAY_SETTINGS="no" POWERSAVE_DISABLE_SCREEN_SAVER="yes" POWERSAVE_DISABLE_DPMS="yes" POWERSAVE_DPMS_STANDBY="5" POWERSAVE_DPMS_SUSPEND="7" POWERSAVE_DPMS_OFF="10" #POWERSAVE_THERMAL_CRITICAL_0="0" #POWERSAVE_THERMAL_HOT_0="0" #POWERSAVE_THERMAL_PASSIVE_0="0" Peter Nießen (Peter Niessen for special character challenged displays) Bartol Research Institute University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-4793 U.S. of America Tel (+1)302/831-8700 Fax (+1)302/831-1843 e-mail niessen@ifh.de www http://www.ifh.de/~niessen /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign \ / --------------------- X against HTML mail / \ and postings pgp public key at http://www.ifh.de/www_users/amanda/niessen/www/pgp_pubkey.asc