9.04 / Boinc user question

[R Kimber]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:13:51 +0100
R Kimber wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:25:45 +0100
> sam tygier wrote:

> > could it be due to a change in the ondemand cpu scaling governor
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss/8052
> > 
> > sam
> 
> Thanks.  That looks a possibility.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cpufreqd/+bug/368809

does seem to be the answer.  Setting
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice_load
to '1' manually on my machine does not stop the processor from scaling
up to 100% with Boinc work units (NI=19). 

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/