Felix Miata wrote:
I have a Foxconn motherboard with Phoenix-Award BIOS and Cedar Mill P4 (Hyperthreading PAE single core) RAID1 system with 11.0 first installed, later 11.2 added, and still later with 11.4 added, now with 3.3.4-1-desktop, giving me three boot choices. 11.4 has been running fine many months, except that /proc/cpuinfo has been reporting my 3.4GHz CPU running at 2400MHz for as long as I can remember, back to when I had a cooling problem and purposely underclocked to keep the temperature down. So today, long after solving the cooling problem, I finally tried to get the CPU speed where it belongs. Eventually I just did a "load optimized defaults" in the BIOS, with a resulting CPU speed within a few MHz of 3400.
However, that resulted in the system clock going crazy fast, gaining at least 1.5 minutes every 10 minutes. I Googled and found that Spread Spectrum enabled can cause this, so I went back to the BIOS. I found a way to turn Spread Spectrum off, but that system clock fix brought the CPU speed back down to 2400MHz.
Isn't this the clock frequency being automatically reduced when there's no workload? CPUFREQ=off turns of the governor. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org