cpuspeed does not start up on servers with westmere cpu.

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Issue

  • The cpuspeed daemon does not work on servers with Westmere cpu .The following errors are seen when starting the service  :

    # cpuspeed 
    Error: Could not open file for writing: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor 
    Error: No such file or directory 
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU  X5670

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