Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Thanks folks, It does sound like it is just a hardware specific bug. I will take this upstream. Dan On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: >> Yeah, I saw that.  I think that is also on wikipedia.  So maybe >> ondemand is for battery

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-30 Thread Phillip Susi
On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: > Yeah, I saw that. I think that is also on wikipedia. So maybe > ondemand is for battery usage. It would still be nice to have > conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop. > > I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Yeah, I saw that. I think that is also on wikipedia. So maybe ondemand is for battery usage. It would still be nice to have conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop. I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer. Dan On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Siegfried-Angel

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Hey, Google gives me this: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Dynamic_Frequency_Scaling "The ondemand (available since 2.6.10) and conservative (since 2.6.12) are governors based on in kernel implementations of CPU scaling algorithms: they scale the CPU frequencies according to the