switch to performance governor no longer working

[SevenW]

Hi,

I was able to switch two times to performance mode with:

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echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

But this stopped working (without changing SW) and the ssh session I perform this in does no longer respond. The echo commanf never completes.
When I open another ssh, trying to cat the file also hangs in the same manner, and system can no longer perform a reboot

I am using the xbmc image of hgblob, with 3.4.67 kernel.
Any ideas?

[max00]

Hi,

have you figured out a way to solve this problem - I'm trying to force the performance governor for the xbmc-image (as you considered) but actually the echo command doesn't finish for me as well...

[usee]

Do you do it as root in shh or as sudo in normal session?
sudo echo performance > /sys/dev....

[memeka]

i think sudo does not work for redirections, i.e. will do sudo echo , but not sudo in writing the file => permission error.
so best do it as root.

edit: or use sudo tee

[SevenW]

It did not work for a while, even after a installed a complete new image from hgblob. The next day I was able to do a couple of successful switches again. I could not find a correlation with other programs interfering, such as XBMC. My testing was done logged in as root.

[memeka]

Install cpufrequtils
and create a file /etc/default/cpufrequtils where you specify the performance gorvernor.
Here's is mine, as an example (I'm using ondemand, but with 800MHz minimum freq instead of 250):

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ENABLE="true"
GOVERNOR="ondemand"
MAX_SPEED=1600000
MIN_SPEED=800000

[max00]

Install cpufrequtils
and create a file /etc/default/cpufrequtils where you specify the performance gorvernor.
Here's is mine, as an example (I'm using ondemand, but with 800MHz minimum freq instead of 250):

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ENABLE="true"
GOVERNOR="ondemand"
MAX_SPEED=1600000
MIN_SPEED=800000

Thanks, this finally worked for me.