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I have the cpu-usage profile of some standard benchmarks in which I can see the cpu-usage to be varying a lot . I wish to increase the cpu-frequency to the highest available value , exactly at the instants the cpu starts executing compute-intensive portions of the workload and reduce the cpu-frequency at instants when workload is not compute-intensive. I'm using linux OS, on a cluster of 2 core2duo machines

Please let me know what code I'm supposed to modify ? Should I change the P-state governor in order to do this ?

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Just enable the "ondemand" cpufreq governor on your Linux distro. No need to modify any code.

On Redhat/Fedora, just install the cpuspeed package and and chkconfig cpuspeed on if it hasn't been done already by default.

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  • Personally, I prefer 'conservative' because 'ondemand' cpu speeds tend to swing widely up and down while 'conservative' moves less.
    – sybreon
    Jan 16, 2010 at 5:14
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Most decent modern servers will manage this themselves - you haven't told us anything about your machine, processors, OS etc.

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  • I'm using a cluster of 2 nodes running linux on core2duo processors
    – kashyapa
    Jan 15, 2010 at 23:41
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Read this:

http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/power/good_practices.html

TL;DR: you're better off running powertop and making sure your box can properly go idle(C states)

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