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cmcginty
Asked: 2010-11-13 15:25:26 +0800 CST

Disable CPU frequency scaling on Lenovo Laptop

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I have a bug where my CPU frequency is scaling down every few hours or so. This happens when:

  1. I'm on AC power
  2. scaling governor is on 'Performance'

What do you have to do to disable CPU frequency scaling? I know you can manually force the min CPU frequency uder /sys/devices/system/cpu, however I really want a permanent solution so I don't have to be constantly changing the CPUfreq values.

cpu-load cpufreq scaling frequency

2 Answers

  1. Just to make sure it's not going to interfere, remove the powernowd package from your system. From a terminal, run:

    sudo apt-get remove powernowd

    After that, or if you don't have that package installed, install rcconf by running:

    sudo apt-get install rcconf

    Then run sudo rcconf and press space with the ondemand service highlighted to disable it. This service controls CPU frequency scaling. Press enter to save and quit. To manually stop it once, you can run sudo /etc/init.d/ondemand stop.

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  2. I guess ayan4m1 explain everything to remove cpu frequency scaling from your box, except by one little detail: If you remove cpu scaling (or set it for performance service), then you will increase energy consumption (even in AC power).

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