reducing power usage of Fedora - how you can help!

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:14:25AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > 
 > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:46 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
 > > On 08/14/2007 04:39 AM, dragoran wrote:
 > > 
 > > What governor is it using? If it's "ondemand" I don't see why cpuspeed
 > > should even be running at all.
 > > 
 > 
 > 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? 

Sometimes it's useful to be able to 'service cpuspeed stop'.
AIUI, the problem is we don't have a way to discriminate between that
use case, and shutting down.

	Dave

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