<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23/08/2008, at 6:16 PM, Graeme Woollett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Odd. I'd expect very little load on the second core. What is <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mythfrontend using under "top" and what processes are second and third <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in CPU use.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was hoping for a bit under 87% load as well, more 70-75% given the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">speed bump over a 3600 X2.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>I'll have another look tonight at the load tonight, that may be a bit <br>pessimistic.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Can you try turning the CPU governor to performance before running your next set of tests. It should provide a clearer idea of true load.</div><div><br></div><div>sudo echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor</div><div><div>sudo echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor</div><div><br></div></div><div>If you are running with ondemand there is a chance that your CPU isn't actually running at full speed during your tests</div><div><br></div><div>Also can you provide the following output</div><div><br></div><div>ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/</div><div><div>cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/*</div><div><br></div><div>ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq</div></div>cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/*<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>