I have posted the results below. It took about 25mins before the givernor throttled the speed back. The full fan speed did not even come and now I cannot change it back to 1.73. The fan successfully controlled the temperature down so why throttle it afterwards? I am running a video, FF, Thunderbird, a disk usage analyser, and system testing util to try and load it. The fan only comes on at above 60oC and even then it's only half fan speed (fairly quiet), not the full fan speed that I had in the past on Windows. So, how come when it is set to ondemand, it throttles it to 800 when it gets to this temperature and prevents me from changing it to performance?
[code] j@j-Inspiron-9300:~$ sudo cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: 10.0 us. hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.73 GHz available frequency steps: 1.73 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.07 GHz, 800 MHz available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance current policy: [B]frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.73 GHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range.[/B] current CPU frequency is 800 MHz (asserted by call to hardware). cpufreq stats: 1.73 GHz:28.76%, 1.33 GHz:1.14%, 1.07 GHz:1.28%, 800 MHz:68.83% (6017) j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:20:04 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 39 C [B]{switched to performance in the middle here}[/B] {now fully on 1.72GHz} j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: 10.0 us. hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.73 GHz available frequency steps: 1.73 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.07 GHz, 800 MHz available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance current policy: [B]frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.73 GHz[/B]. The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 1.73 GHz. cpufreq stats: 1.73 GHz:49.04%, 1.33 GHz:0.71%, 1.07 GHz:0.81%, 800 MHz:49.44% (8722) j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:29:33 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 45 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:32:14 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 56 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:33:51 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 57 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:35:25 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 56 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:37:58 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 62 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:39:41 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 65 C [B]{half fan speed comes on here but not full speed yet}[/B] j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:43:14 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 57 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:44:32 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 59 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:46:22 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 69 C [B] {half fan on again}[/B] [B] {throttled back here to 800 and will not increase}[/B] j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ date Sat Feb 5 10:51:45 CET 2011 j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature temperature: 43 C j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cpu-freq info cpu-freq: command not found j@j-Inspiron-9300:/$ cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: 10.0 us. hardware limits: 800 MHz - 1.73 GHz available frequency steps: 1.73 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.07 GHz, 800 MHz available cpufreq governors: conservative, ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance current policy: [B]frequency should be within 800 MHz and 800 MHz. The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use within this range.[/B] current CPU frequency is 800 MHz. cpufreq stats: 1.73 GHz:62.92%, 1.33 GHz:0.40%, 1.07 GHz:0.45%, 800 MHz:36.22% (8723) [/code] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709390 Title: CPU governor changes speed to minimum only -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs