Comment 23 for bug 88899

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 88899] Re: cpufreq locked in slowest speed

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:39 +0000, lunomad wrote:
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>
> So. I have identified two problems:
> 1. Thermal Threshold is set too low (this computer should run up to
> 70C (as it used to do under Feisty, kernel 2.6.16).
> 2. Hysteresis (that is, Delta-Temp) is set too wide...should be
> reduced to 5C or 7C, so that the computer can throttle up and throttle
> down.
>
> I don't know how to set/change any of these values. Any help out
> there?

Excellent analysis - thanks!

I'm not sure how to set them either; but I imagine the kernel module
source for scaling will be relevant.

-Rob
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