On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:49:03 +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote:

> >> I'm curious what your scaling_driver is, when you are not using
> >> acpi_cpufreq. 
> > # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver 
> > intel_pstate
> Looks like the intel_pstate driver doesn't support statistics reporting:
> - https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/27/64
> - https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/561

Ah, thanks for these findings.

> He also mentions that intel_pstate can be disabled via kernel cmdline,
> so that the ACPI driver is used instead.

Right, that's what I've seen in other places as well (add
intel_pstate=disable to the kernel line).
But I guess that's not a viable solution to tell all munin users to
set this boot option / to not use the intel_pstate driver.
 
> So it looks like this kind of information will not be available on some
> systems. I don't know if there would be something similar available
> that munin could use.

Me neither.
But at least we have a clearer picture now. Thanks for your
investigations!

(Maybe we should retitle the bug report?)


Cheers,
gregor

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