FC6 core duo and cpuspeed

Christian Menzel chris at menzel.com
Fri Nov 3 15:57:26 UTC 2006


On Fr, 2006-11-03 at 10:33 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> The power domain is per socket, not per core.
> Current Core CPUs cannot change voltage on a per-core basis.
> 
>  > This is also the case when the system is under load, the applets always
>  > show the same freq for both cores. This behavior is different from the
>  > behavior in FC5, where sometimes only one CPU was under load.
> 
> the cpuspeed daemon as shipped doesn't support dual core, and would
> report inaccurate states.
> This is why it's now using ondemand.
> 
OK, then please excuse my ignorance.

I guess that means the display in FC5 was simply wrong. 
Too bad, I liked having two CPU-freq-apps in the panel :-)

Thanks
Chris





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