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00:48.21nombhello everyone its nate
00:52.53nombanyone here?
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03:06.04sticksterHi nomb
03:06.33sticksterWas around earlier but I'm usually on another desktop so I miss any shouts not directed at me personally :-D
03:10.19nomboh hello :D
03:11.34nombI've been using the linux kernel book and got 2.6.20.1 installed with kvm, now im trying to install kvm but it requiers gcc 3.x and I already have 4...
03:15.14nombah crud fc6 comes with 4.x there isn't a 3.x in the repos
03:21.03nombstickster: do you know much about freq scaling?
03:21.39sticksternomb: You can install compat-gcc-34
03:22.08sticksterThere are a number of backward-compatibility packages provided in the compat\* namespace
03:22.14nombhmm
03:22.23nombmaybe I'll give that a try then
03:22.26sticksterAs for freq scaling, not much more than the basics I'm afraid
03:23.25sticksterThere used to be a compat-gcc-296 but it looks like that's gone :-)
03:23.27nombwell i got a dual core and cpu 0 scales but cpu 1 doesn't (using the panel scaler) but in gkrellm it only shows frequencies for cpu1 but it shows cpu0's freqs.  any iteas?
03:24.36sticksterI have a dual core and from time to time I see my cpu1 flogging away at a low freq, hi temp, while cpu0 idles... /me smells bug
03:24.42sticksterHave you checked Bugzilla
03:24.51nombya couldn't find anything
03:24.55nombi did find however
03:24.57nombin the /sys
03:25.12nombdirectory if u keep following it to the scaling parts
03:25.21sticksterright, /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*
03:25.25nombright
03:25.54nombunder cpu0 there is a file along the lines of what cpu is controlled and it has a 0 but in cpu1 that file is blank
03:26.07sticksterDude, that is *bizarre*.
03:26.16sticksterI was just looking at this today, this very morning.
03:26.16nomband of course /sys is read only
03:26.22nomb:D
03:26.28sticksterI had the opposite problem, where cpu1 had a "1" and cpu0 nothing
03:26.42nombI don't get it
03:26.48sticksterRoy Neary moment: "This means something..."
03:27.14nombi wonder if anyone has a dual core working with scaling like it should
03:27.47sticksterIt's got to be related.  Right now my system is acting fine, and if I "diff -u /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*" I see only a difference in crash_notes, probably expected
03:28.05sticksterOoo, wait
03:28.13sticksterI see this:
03:28.14sticksterOnly in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1: online
03:30.07nombi have that exact same line actually
03:31.05nombya :D you work it out and let me know :D
03:31.19nombI wish i could change files in sys
03:32.02nombI hate only scaling 1
03:32.54sticksterIf you 'cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor' what do you see?
03:33.23nombI installed them all but one sec
03:34.05nombondemand for cpu0 which is what i set
03:34.15sticksterAlso, sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
03:34.32nomband a blank line and then ondemand for cpu1
03:35.27nombdoes not exist for cpu0
03:35.38nombsame for cpu1
03:36.02nomboh lol wait
03:36.06sticksterWhat about /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq ?
03:36.21nombcpu0 - 1000000
03:36.34nombsame for cpu1
03:37.36sticksterI think that means they are both scaling; both are running at 1GHz
03:37.49nombbut they arne't
03:37.57sticksterAnd it *looks* like both are running with the ondemand cpufreq policy
03:38.02sticksterHow can you tell?
03:38.15nomblet me just double check before i say
03:38.53nombnvm I just proved myself wrong
03:39.06nombi switched up the freq and checked the file again
03:39.45nombit irritates me I can't have an icon per processor
03:39.53nombis there any better program for monitoring?
03:40.03nombthe the add-on for the bars?
03:40.43sticksterHmm, I was using the cpufreq-applet for a while, then realized I spent too much time looking at it and not enough time working ;-D
03:40.56nombwhat is that?
03:40.57sticksterI put a dual temp sensor in my bar istead
03:41.21sticksterRight click the panel, add applet, "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor"
03:41.34nombthats what im using
03:41.54nombdual doesn't work they both show cpu0 even if i right click on one and tell it to monitor cpu1
03:42.55sticksterHmm, I'm seeing the same thing.
03:42.59sticksterWhat kernel, etc are you using?
03:43.28nombkernel 2.6.20.1
03:44.09nombu said yours does the same thing?
03:45.13sticksterYes, I'm on Fedora's 2.6.19-1.2911
03:45.16nomblets do a test to see if cpu1 will scale w/o cpu0
03:45.23nombi have gkrellm up monitoring load
03:45.45nombi will do "while true; do true; done
03:45.52sticksterThey will.
03:45.56nombto max out cpu1 and not cpu0
03:45.57sticksterJust use cpufreq-selector
03:46.32sticksterI did "cpufreq-selector -c 0 -g performance" and "cpufreq-selector -c 1 -g ondemand" and then check the results in /sys/ -- works right.
03:47.37nombnot mine
03:47.47sticksterah
03:48.58sticksterI'm using a Centrino Duo 2.33
03:49.19sticksterOr "T2700," whatever ;-)
03:49.36nombI have the T2400
03:51.14nomberror inserting kvm invalid module format?
03:52.14stickster*shrug*
03:52.27nombok
03:52.50sticksterheh, http://mricon.livejournal.com/367381.html
03:53.44sticksterTypical, icon blogs in two lines what I took a whole page to say
03:54.13nomblol
03:55.29nombthis is the dmesg: kvm: exports duplicate symbol kvm_exit_arch (owned by kernel)
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19:50.37jsmithw00t!
19:50.45jsmithOf course, you probably have an RHN key for it too..
19:59.20stickster_workNope, plus not on an external connected system :-)
19:59.56jsmithOf course ;-)
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23:04.49plarsen_I think life hates me ... or at least likes to play way nasty tricks on me!!
23:04.56plarsen_bad life!!

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