[mythtv-users] Cool n Quiet + mythcommflag

[John Drescher]

> I have cool n quiet workin on my AMD 64 X2 5200.  I noticed when
> mythcommflag is running it doesnt step the ondemand speed to the max.  I
> assume this is because mythcommflag is started to be 'nice' to other
> programs ie Playing HDTV.
>
> How can i configure the system to speed up when commflag is going on but
> also not have issues of studdering HD video?
>
I set my Opteron system in ondemand and then use the following in my
startup script to give me the full cpu when the cpu usage goes over
15%

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo 15 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold

John