Re: Ondemand governor by default in etch

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:03:42PM +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:36:29 -0600 John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > I believe that we should enable CPU frequency scaling, and the
> > ondemand governer, by default in etch.
> 
> s/ondemand/conservative/

I personally wouldn't mind that.  My general impression -- and this is
just me -- is that conservative takes longer to raise the CPU frequency
when there is activity.  It therefore can produce a noticable
performance hit.  That is fine for some, but is less of a "conservative"
change from previous releases of Debian.  

Of course, you do save more power that way, so making it easy for the
user to change to conservative would be a positive thing as well.

With ondemand, for instance, I can see the CPU blip up to max speed when
I click on my icon to open a Konsole, when Iceweasel is rendering a web
page, etc.  It reacts very, very fast.  Conservative doesn't seem to
quite as much.

-- John