On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> 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 shorter time at 100% speed. > > That won't save power for an application that runs forever though, which > is what Evan wants (running a BOINC client). > > Seems like a good use-case to me; any (almost) perpetual background-task > should not scale up the CPU frequency. How to implement that behaviour > is up to the linux devs though... ;) >
It is already implemented in the form of the ignore_nice_load setting. This site [1] explains it well. The bug report [2] is because in Jaunty, this setting is ignored, and not honoured. [1] http://www.pantz.org/software/cpufreq/usingcpufreqonlinux.html [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cpufreqd/+bug/368809 Evan
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