Re: reducing power usage of Fedora - how you can help!

[Ralf Ertzinger <fedora camperquake de>]

Hi.

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:14:25 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> speaking of cpuspeed... why does it have a script that runs at
> shutdown? sounds like a total waste of cpu cycles and disk accesses
> and spuriously making boot times longer.. since really what would it
> to? 

The same applies to quite a lot of services. There was talk some
releases to ago to scrap the shutdown of those services and
just let SIGTERM do it's work.