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

["Richard Hughes" <hughsient gmail com>]

On 21/03/07, Dave Jones <davej redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, no worries.

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

Ahh, I didn't know that. Cheers for clarifying.

Richard.