Re: Core 199 - collectd - cpufreq-plugin floods syslog

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi Matthias,

On 21/01/2026 21:47, Matthias Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just in case that this happens to somebody else:
>
> Some days ago I made a fresh install of Core 199 with a new machine and
> rather old cpu (i7-2700). Runs fine and has more power than the old Duo
> box. Fits my needs.
>
> But I couldn't disable HT in BIOS - 'htop' finds eight CPUs. Should be
> no problem - but it is.
>
> The problem came with the 'cpufreq'-plugin, my logs were flooded with
> warnings:
> "cpufreq plugin: Reading
> "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4[5,6,7]/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq" failed."
>
> Because of the deactivation, 'scaling_cur_freq' was empty, there were
> complains about CPU 4-7 (the deactivated ones) and in no time my log was
> filled with about 10000 'collectd'-entries.
>
> My solution was to change the loglevel of the 'Plugin syslog' in
> 'collectd.conf' from 'info' to 'err'.
>
> Can anyone confirm this behaviour?
Can't confirm it on my system. I have a new mini with a quad core 
celeron. cpufreq-plugin is working fine. No error messages of any kind 
in the collectd system logs since I did my CU199 update and all graphs 
are displaying fine.

Regards,

Adolf.

> Best
> Matthias
>
>

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