Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 14:25 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:29 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > > > > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. > > > > Some thing could be done. Try out wi

Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 20:43 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 11/06/2006 03:30 PM, Owen Heisler wrote: > > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. > > I'm no expert at all, but you have no responses yet... So,

Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:29 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > > > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. > > Some thing could be done. Try out with > "sysctl -a". Find apropriate option and > read manual on it.

Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-07 Thread Zoran Kolic
> > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. I've googled for generic options in kernel configura- tion. Then asked old friend for his suse conf file. Both are the same. Have acpi enabled, acpi_processor enab

Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/06/2006 03:30 PM, Owen Heisler wrote: > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. > > With ACPI on, /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling (I think that's > right) shows 8 states, with the highest one active

"processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-06 Thread Owen Heisler
An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. With ACPI on, /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling (I think that's right) shows 8 states, with the highest one active. The highest one is not 100% though, rather 80% or