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. -- ^^^ | Evgeni -SargentD- Golov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) d(O_o)b | PGP-Key-ID: 0xAC15B50C >-|-< | WWW: http://www.die-welt.net ICQ: 54116744 / \ | IRC: #sod @ irc.german-freakz.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
