> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:09 +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> > package: powernowd
> > version: 0.97-1
> > severity: normal
> > 
> > It seems that powernowd does not take into account the current system
> cpu
> > load, only user cpu load seems to be considered.
> > 
> > E.g. VMware has a significant amount of computing load running in system
> > space. Even if the cpu is 100% busy, if the user cpu load part is lower
> than
> > the threshold (by default 80%) then powernowd won't scale up the cpu
> > frequency.
> 
> Reading the source, system time is always included in the calculation.
> There is an option to decide whether to include or exclude nice'd
> processes, but user, system, irq, and softirq time is always included.

I've seen that, too. I don't know yet what the problem is, but every time my 
system feels slow and powernowd has not scaled up the frequency, the KDE system 
monitor shows me a noticeable amount of sys cpu load.

Thomas
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