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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] TW and ksysguard
From:       Michael Andreas Buchberger <mabto () t-online ! de>
Date:       2017-09-30 9:56:50
Message-ID: 8972359.BvlWUcvjGa () dell1110lx ! mab
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Am Samstag, 30. September 2017, 09:29:42 CEST schrieb Frans de Boer:
> On 29-09-17 16:51, Michael Andreas Buchberger wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 29. September 2017, 16:11:27 CEST schrieb Frans de Boer:
> >> LS,
> >> 
> >> The past two-three weeks or so, ksysguard is losing a setting and
> >> displays the wrong cpu speeds.
> >> 
> >> The clock speed is now always at his highest, while the ondemand
> >> governor is selected. Before, it ranged between 800 and 3600 MHz. Btw:
> >> the indicator is now 3615 MHz, which is the speed set in the BIOS. Thus,
> >> finally an accurate speed is displayed, but no change in clock speed
> >> displayed.
> >> The cpupower util does display correctly the various clock speeds.
> >> 
> >> Second, the setting for vcore min is lost after terminating ksysguard.
> >> The setting for Vcore max is preserved.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Frans de Boer.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.13-Power-Manag
> > ement:
> > 
> > - x86 systems will no longer try to export their current CPU frequency to
> > /
> > proc/cpuinfo. There's also a way to rework how the CPU frequency is
> > exported via sysfs too, using the registers for computing the current
> > frequency rather than relying upon the CPUFreq driver.
> > 
> > see also:
> > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1707.0/01366.html
> > 
> > Regards
> > mab
> 
> Ok, I have read and understand the thought behind it.
> I don't like it, but is seems a fact now. So, using this in ksysguard
> has no use anymore.
> 
> Thanks anyhow,
> Frans.

4.13 is a very recent kernel. I expect that the developers will adapt 
ksysguard to these changes. But we will need some patience, or revert to 
kernel 4.12.


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