Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-05-01 Thread Evan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op dinsdag 28-04-2009 om 22:09 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef Marius > Gedminas: > > Why is it a bug? According to Matthew Garrett, to save power, you > > want to finish executing a task as soon as possible, which means > > running for a shorte

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-30 Thread Jan Claeys
Op dinsdag 28-04-2009 om 22:09 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef Marius Gedminas: > Why is it a bug? According to Matthew Garrett, to save power, you > want to finish executing a task as soon as possible, which means > running for a shorter time at 100% speed. That won't save power for an application

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-28 Thread Evan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Evan wrote: > > I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something > curious. > > I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it should be > > raised. > > > > If a cpu

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-28 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Evan wrote: > I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something curious. > I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it should be > raised. > > If a cpu (or core) is set to "Ondemand" and an application with a high nice > va

Re: CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-27 Thread Evan
Reposting to full list. Sorry Felipe. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Felipe Figueiredo wrote: > Evan wrote: > > I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something > > curious. I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it > > should be raised. > > > > If a cpu (or c

CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

2009-04-27 Thread Evan
I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something curious. I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it should be raised. If a cpu (or core) is set to "Ondemand" and an application with a high nice value is running: - In intrepid, the cpu remained scaled down - In j