Use of PowerD

akuma1x · Apr 16, 2020, 10:54 PM

So, what settings would be recommended for an SG-8860 and SG-4860 box?

8860 all 3 (AC, battery, unknown) are set at Hiadaptive right now. Don't know about 4860, not powered up right now.

Jeff

stephenw10 · Apr 17, 2020, 2:37 AM

Powerd enabled and all on HiAdaptive is the default on the SG series and works best.

Steve

NollipfSense · Apr 17, 2020, 2:37 AM

@stephenw10 Interesting ... just enabled powerd on mine with the default hiadaptive, thanks for sharing.

jeff3820 · Apr 17, 2020, 2:55 AM

I have Powerd enabled for the bulk of today and all runs fine...I see no difference in performance at all so if this save a few watts I'm pleased.

I have noticed under System Information, CPU Type that the Current: CPU frequency is visible about 75% of the time. Sometimes the Current: CPU frequency line disappears but it seems to return in a few seconds. Does anyone else observe the same thing? Not a big deal...just curious.

stephenw10 · Apr 17, 2020, 11:53 AM

That's the expected behaviour. It only shows that line when the CPU is running at less than maximum speed.
So either:

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2558 @ 2.40GHz
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (inactive)

or

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2558 @ 2.40GHz
Current: 2200 MHz, Max: 2400 MHz
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (inactive)

Steve

akuma1x · Apr 17, 2020, 3:06 PM

@stephenw10 said in Use of PowerD:

Powerd enabled and all on HiAdaptive is the default on the SG series and works best.

Steve

OK, thanks for the info!

Jeff

SteveITS · Apr 17, 2020, 5:17 PM

@stephenw10 said in Use of PowerD:

Powerd enabled and all on HiAdaptive is the default on the SG series

Some SGs? https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143189/powerd-on-sg-3100 ("PowerD is not used on our ARM devices") or did that change at some point?

stephenw10 · Apr 17, 2020, 7:00 PM

Sorry, indeed. It's default on the SG-2220/2440/4860/8860.

bcruze · Jun 10, 2020, 12:16 PM

i just noticed this on my sg3100 after the update. maybe it was there before: i did have power D enabled. i've turned it off now

Jun 9 14:21:27 php-cgi rc.bootup: The command '/usr/sbin/powerd -b 'hadp' -a 'hadp' -n 'hadp'' returned exit code '69', the output was 'powerd: no cpufreq(4) support -- aborting: No such file or directory'

stephenw10 · Jun 10, 2020, 1:35 PM

Yes it should not be enabled on the SG-3100 because, as it says, there is no driver cpufreq can use for the ARM processor there. It does not hurt trying to start it though beyond that error message.

Steve