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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2019 21:57:56 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [SOLVED] Re: now on Ryzen performance
Message-ID:  <20190102215756.15ab731c.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
In-Reply-To: <2b6e1a69-28fa-dd6a-f691-a3347aac8ae3@netfence.it>
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Hi,

I took a look at the sources of powerd. I did not see any thing I would
suspect to be the cause of the slowdown. All powerd does on my machine
is adjusting the CPU frequency. Mu Ryzen has only three possible
frequencies. What I do not understand, why is powerd requesting a
frequency change to a value not possible?

Powerd itself hardly consumes CPU. Has a system call a problem or gets
the CPU so much irritated when an illegal frequency is requested? 

Erich


 On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 09:18:20
+0100 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:

> On 12/21/18 5:40 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> 
> > Having powerd running or not does not make any difference.  
> 
> After further investigation/testing, powerd is the culprit.
> Earlier I tried stopping it and I confirm it makes no difference; now
> I realize just starting it bring the CPU down by a factor of 50%
> until rebooting.
> 
> After disabling it in /etc/rc.conf my machine is behaving properly.
> 
> I'll try enabling it again when I'll upgrade to 12 (although that
> might happen not so soon).
> 
>   bye & Thanks
> 	av.
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