Public bug reported:

Whilst debugging 'slow instance performance' on a Ubuntu Bionic based
cloud, I observed that the default cpu governor configuration was set to
'powersave'; toggling this to 'performance' (while in not anyway a
particularly green thing todo) resulted in the instance slowness
disappearing and the cloud performance being as expected (based on a
prior version of the deploy on Ubuntu Xenial).

AFAICT Xenial does the same thing albeit in a slight different way, but
we definitely did not see the same performance laggy-ness under a Xenial
based cloud.

Raising against systemd (as this package sets the governor to
'powersave') - I feel that the switch to 'performance' although
appropriate then obscures what might be a performance/behavioural
difference in the underlying kernel when a machine is under load.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: systemd 237-3ubuntu10.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-39.42-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 30 10:05:46 2018
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8002 Intel Corp. 
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:a001 Dell Computer Corp. Hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:800a Intel Corp. 
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R630
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-39-generic 
root=UUID=a361a524-47eb-46c3-8a04-e5eaa65188c9 ro hugepages=103117 iommu=pt 
intel_iommu=on
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/08/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.3.4
dmi.board.name: 02C2CP
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 23
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.3.4:bd11/08/2016:svnDellInc.:pnPowerEdgeR630:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn02C2CP:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct23:cvr:
dmi.product.name: PowerEdge R630
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic uec-images

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