<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 7:11 PM Allen Edwards <<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi again,<div><br></div><div>On my 8.04 system the CPU would run slow until the usage got above an idle because of this statement in rc.local</div><div><b>echo -n 15 | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold</b><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Now I get an error on boot and the old command is met with program not found. There is no Cool'n'quiet in the bios so that is not a good hint and this all worked before so I am faced with some incompatibility with the new system.</div><div><br></div><div>I am interested in having the CPU throttle back when it is not in use as this system is, of course, on 24/7.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_jlcyb1ch0" alt="Image1.jpg" width="452" height="80"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>As usual Google is full of information that I have no idea if it applies to my old hardware and newer software. </div><div><br></div><div>If I learned one thing with the last debugging session it is don't just try stuff from the web because it is just as likely to trash the system as to fix it. Linux just changes too much to expect what is on the web to apply to 10 year old HW. The processor is an AMD 5400.</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div></div>
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MythTV Forums: <a href="https://forum.mythtv.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well this URL <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/783183/cpu-frequency-scaling-stuck-2-80-ghz-and-its-not-going-down">https://askubuntu.com/questions/783183/cpu-frequency-scaling-stuck-2-80-ghz-and-its-not-going-down</a> seems to cover most if not all of the options for scaling. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Read through it and make sure you understand how it works and what you need to do, it's pretty straight forward and if you keep notes of what you have done you can always revert. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All technology changes just the way it works, I'm a Linux guy though, good or bad it's way better than windoze and more likely to run on older hardware. Good luck and let us know how it works out.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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