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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Phillip Susi
* Package name: e2defrag
Version : 0.79
Upstream Author : Phillip Susi
* URL : http://launchpad.net/e2defrag
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
On 02/20/2011 02:02 AM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Oh, dear:
,[ powernowd -d -v -v -v -n -l 10 ]
I'm not sure why you posted this. I asked why a user space govornor
works, but a kernel space one does not. You seem to have taken that as
"how do you know the user space one works"?
No, I am
On 02/19/2011 09:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
And even if p4-clockmod is fixed, there are other arches (read: PowerPC)
where the same with p4-clockmod is true.
I'm still wondering how p4-clockmod can be controlled with a userspace
governor, but not any of the kernel ones. Are you guessing abou
On 02/18/2011 12:58 AM, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Dec 16 2010, Phillip Susi wrote:
Powernowd used to accomplish the same thing as ACPI P-states by
directly manipulating the amd k8 cpu registers.
No, it doesn't. It is just a userspace governor and, despite the name,
it is not tied to AMD
I discovered this today and used it to make Chromium stop touching the
disk on my laptop so it could stay spin down. This saved power and
extended my battery life from 3 to 4 hours. Firefox is a far worse
offender at needlessly fsyncing so this should help a LOT there.
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