Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752613AbYLXGjK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:39:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750993AbYLXGi4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:38:56 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:28145 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbYLXGi4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:38:56 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=YJLdvH+vkKanoMal4U/NVMjss5geGjFhq2uf6rZZu1BT4NtPbeVIduIetNY3ck9nV8 bxXbQp15b4CE3TqdY5jqSUvKpYWqnc9hwWLYSQs/Kj1e5JSLFZV0WHiKjmYLpZHQ13oV g7cng5Pqew/lTrXoX3qQZ6o7Y0lCKr8NgGEfU= From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" To: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: Question about not saving power Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:38:01 +0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.92 (Linux/2.6.27-ARCH; KDE/4.1.85; i686; ; ) References: <200812241050.24804.patrakov@gmail.com> <1230099417.21770.4.camel@marge.simson.net> In-Reply-To: <1230099417.21770.4.camel@marge.simson.net> Cc: LKML MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812241138.01961.patrakov@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 26 On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:57 you wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 10:50 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > My question is: what are my options (like kernel parameters) to disable > > power- saving features, other than running such CPU-eating process > > continuously? > > You can set your performance governor to "performance". If you're using > KDE, in the lower right corner of your display is an icon for that. I > don't know what Gnome looks like. Anyway, you can set it manually as > well... > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors I don't have the cpufreq driver loaded normally, so these files don't exist. And this is my home desktop, not the corporate laptop. After modprobing "cpufreq-acpi", the file does appear and contains "performance". The tone doesn't disappear, though. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/