From: Donnie Barnes Subject: Re: CPU Frequency Warnings Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 06:55:01 -0500 Message-ID: <1101038101.4117.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1100739388.3882.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041121100901.GC14594@dominikbrodowski.de> Reply-To: djb@donniebarnes.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041121100901.GC14594@dominikbrodowski.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=gmane.org@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dominik Brodowski Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 05:09, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:56:28PM -0500, Donnie Barnes wrote: > > > > Just installed FC3 with kernel 2.6.9-1.678_FC3 and am getting this: > > > > Nov 17 20:54:34 localhost kernel: Warning: CPU frequency is 997000, > > cpufreq assumed 731000 kHz. > > > > It's on a Via Epia MII 10000 mini-itx motherboard with onboard CPU. > > Any fix for this? Found a reference from the FC2 days to report it to > > this address. > > Something (probably the BIOS) changed the CPU speed in between > initialization of the CPU and this message (did you suspend to disk / ram in > between?). It's not really problematic unless you run a ntp server on this > system or other time- and timing-critical applications. Also, the kernel did > manage the situation then, so from this message on all things should be in > order again, unless something changed the CPU speed behind the kernel's back > again. Well, I'm getting a *ton* of those warnings, though, and they seem more prevalent when there is disk activity, yeah. So maybe I just need to check the BIOS and turn off the speed changing stuff. It's one of those mini-itx things, so it probably tries to do power management. I don't need it to do that, so it should be easy to just turn off. I'll check into that. Thanks. --Donnie -- Donnie Barnes http://www.donniebarnes.com djb@donniebarnes.com 879. V.