Orange Pi Zero - CPU and Load issues with 5.38
Hi all,
With a fresh install of version 5.38 (jessie 4.14.15, idle since 5 min.), I've a CPU throttling and load issues :
CPU frequency never drop under 1200MHz and CPU load never drop under 1.00.
The same board and SD card with fresh install of version 5.35 :
CPU is most of the time @240MHz and load is way under 1.00.
I've found a different value in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate file :
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You had. But since you switched to a different governor and those sysfs entries are created/removed dynamically they disappeared. As soon as you switch the governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/$governor will reappear.
As a general information: we tried to move away from ondemand two years ago with kernel 4.7 when schedutil governor was introduced which should be a replacement for ondemand that is considered somewhat broken by kernel devs. Unfortunately with schedutil a lot of str