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

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

On 22.01.2026 01:49, Tom Rymes wrote:
> Matthias,

Hi Tom,

> I always get your emails to the list, followed by a second message that your emails aren’t appearing on the list. I’m guessing the issue is that you are not receiving a copy of your own e-mails?

Exactly.

This started "some day" - so that I couldn't tell if my mail came through.

On the other hand, I receive mails like yours always *twice*. Funny. One
of these mails comes with a List-ID from <development.lists.ipfire.org>.
Its a bit weird...

> Either way, it always seems to be working properly to me.

Ok - I think, for the moment I can live with that... ;-)

Best
Matthias

> 
> Tom
> 
>> On Jan 21, 2026, at 5:52 PM, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 2cd try:
>> For reasons unknown to me, my Mails no longer appear on the list, even
>> though I can send them there without any errors.
>> 
>> Therefore: next attempt - plus CC to MT [Hi Michael... ;-) ]
>> 
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>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Best
>> Matthias
>> 
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