Re: Launching g-p-m in gdm, Was: too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:23:59AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:

 > > $ grep DEFAULT_GOV /boot/config-2.6.20-1.2997.fc7
 > > # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set
 > > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE=y
 > > 
 > > So no power savings until something takes care of it afaics (or am I
 > > wrong with that? anyway, that could probably easily be adjusted until
 > > F8).
 > 
 > I think ondemand might be the best choice here (if IOwait is indeed the
 > case)

NO. I keep bringing this up time and time again.
Ondemand is not a universal answer. Not all CPU scaling implementations
have fast enough latency for it to be practical.

 > , or maybe performance.

Which is exactly the same as the case userspace+no governor, which
is what we have now.

	Dave

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