Issued:

2013-02-20

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0490 - cpuspeed bug fix update

Synopsis

cpuspeed bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated cpuspeed packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The cpuspeed packages contain a daemon that dynamically changes speed of processors depending upon their current workload. This package also supports enabling CPU frequency scaling via in-kernel CPUfreq governors on Intel Centrino and AMD Athlon64/Opteron platforms.

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the cpuspeed daemon used a naive method of getting the highest available scaling frequency. Consequently, on certain platforms, cpuspeed did not set the CPU to the correct maximum limit. A patch has been provided to address this issue and cpuspeed now sets the maximum speed correctly. (BZ#876738)

Users of cpuspeed are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• cpuspeed-debuginfo-1.5-19.el6.i686.rpm
• cpuspeed-1.5-19.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cpuspeed-debuginfo-1.5-19.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cpuspeed-debuginfo-1.5-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cpuspeed-1.5-19.el6.src.rpm
• cpuspeed-1.5-19.el6.i686.rpm
• cpuspeed-1.5-19.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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