Re: Ondemand governor by default in etch
Hi,
please don't CC me ;)
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:31:38 -0600 John Goerzen wrote:
> 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.
Yes you're right, consevative is a bit slower than ondemand. But from
my expirience it is not slow enough you would recognize while starting
a "monster" like iceweasel or openoffice.org
> 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.
It is already very easy, just install cpufrequtils and
edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and it will start your governor at
boottime.
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