Bug#273041: gnome-cpufreq-applet: fails to notice CPU speed change

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

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El jue, 23-09-2004 a las 19:00 +0300, Marius Gedminas escribi=C3=B3:
> I have downloaded the source code and looked into it.  The applet has
> three methods for determining the CPU frequency:
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>   1. from /proc/cpufreq
>   2. from /proc/cpuinfo
>   3. from /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0]/cpufreq/*
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> I have a 2.4 kernel without sysfs, therefore the third method is
> irrelevant.  The second method would produce correct result -- the CPU
> frequency in /proc/cpuinfo changes when I change the CPU speed.
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> Apparently the applet uses the first method, which is not very reliable.
> In my case /proc/cpufreq shows the same thing no matter what CPU speed
> I select:
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>             minimum CPU frequency  -  maximum CPU frequency  -  policy
>   CPU  0       665000 kHz ( 76 %)  -     864500 kHz (100 %)  -  userspace
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> The cpufreq applet assumes that policy =3D=3D "poversave" implies the min=
imum
> CPU frequency, and all other policies imply the maximum CPU frequency.
> This is demonstrably wrong.  The applet should treat "userspace" policy
> as unknown and fall back to other means of determining the CPU
> frequency, e.g. /proc/cpuinfo.
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> There is another way of detecting the CPU speed:
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>   $ cat /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed
>   665000

Could you give me the content of all the files in /proc/sys/cpu/0/
please?

> I do not know if it is used by any released kernel.  It is used by the
> CPUfreq patch for 2.4 kernels.
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> FWIF I use a 2.4.26 kernel with cpufreq-LINUX_2_4-20040623.tar.gz
> applied.  I got the patch from
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>   http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/cpufreq/

Thanks

> Marius Gedminas

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