cpu speed problem

[fedora]

Hi Andy
down /proc/acpi i see (between others)

[myuser at myhost ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature:             43 C
[myuser at myhost ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/trip_points
critical (S5):           101 C
[myuser at myhost ~]$

[myuser at myhost ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/power_resource/PADA/state
state:                   on
system level:            S0
order:                   0
reference count:         0
[myuser at myhost ~]$


[myuser at myhost ~]$ ps xa |grep acpi
    49 ?        S<     0:00 [kacpid]
    50 ?        S<     0:00 [kacpi_notify]
  2551 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel 
interface /proc/acpi/event
  4209 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep acpi
[myuser at myhost ~]$


[myuser at myhost ~]$ dmesg |grep ACPI
ACPI: bus type pci registered
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *5 7)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 *10 11)
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 16 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0f.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0f.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
apm: overridden by ACPI.
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (65 C)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0f.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
parport_pc 00:0f: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) 
-> IRQ 5
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
ac ACPI0003:00: freeze
processor ACPI0007:00: freeze
processor ACPI0007:00: resuming
ac ACPI0003:00: resuming
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) 
-> IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
ac ACPI0003:00: freeze
processor ACPI0007:00: freeze
processor ACPI0007:00: resuming
ac ACPI0003:00: resuming
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) 
-> IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
ac ACPI0003:00: freeze
processor ACPI0007:00: freeze
processor ACPI0007:00: resuming
ac ACPI0003:00: resuming
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) 
-> IRQ 5
[myuser at myhost ~]$



i assime  the freeze/resume sequences are at the initiation of a suspend 
and a resume sequence respectively


see now actually the temparature has gone up farer:
[myuser at myhost ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature:             58 C
[myuser at myhost ~]$



many thanks for your ideas and help

suomi



Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>> Andy Green wrote:
>>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>>
>>>> worked well until 10 days ago. then, the laptop started its fan, and
>>>> drove down its cpuspeed to about a quarter of the speed before. if i run
>>>> the system-monitor, the cpu is busy always about 30 %, whereas before it
>>> Did you look into which process was eating the extra CPU?
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>> Could the extra CPU usage be because the CPU is running so much
>> slower that it requires a higher CPU load to do the same tasks?
> 
> You're quite right, it can easily be that.
> 
> Is there anything down /proc/acpi any more on this machine then, in case
> it no longer is able to start ACPI?
> 
> Anything interesting in
> 
> dmesg | grep ACPI
> 
> -Andy
>