Proposal for resolving powernowd/apmd vs. (k)powersave conflict

[Hervé Fache]

Is powersave as good as powernowd? Powernowd just seems to always to
The Right Thing(TM), and it's dead simple!

2006/4/19, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de>:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:14, Michel D'HOOGE wrote:
> > > Have you tried to put CPUFREQ_CONTROL="userspace" in
> > > /etc/powersave/cpufreq ?
> >
> > Not yet because I first wanted to try the ondemand governor. I may be
> > stubborn but I like to be sure of what's happening before trying something
> > else :-) And I thought Ubuntu/gnome/whatever was using it but maybe I am
> > wrong. I am currently reading the kernel documentation to try to get a good
> > grasp of the whole thing.
>
> Was the kernel ondemand governor loaded? What say
> 'cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors' ?
>
> > What does /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq say?
> >
> > Plenty of interesting things ;-) This is really what I was missing to know
> > precisely the current frequency - well, at least, I guess we can trust it?
>
> Yes
>
> > BTW, I am still upset by the "throttling" thing. Is it the same thing as
> > CPU freq controlling, or does it come in addition?
>
> If your machine support cpufreq, don't touch throttling. Btw. throttling save
> not really power or reduce the power consumtion of your machine, but slow
> down all processes.
>
> > I meant that after resuming from STR, Kpowersave always says the frequency
> > is 800MHz even if I ask it to switch to  the performance scheme. I still
> > need to experiment to determine the best configuration.
>
> What say: 'grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ -r' (as root) before
> suspend and what after resume?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Danny
>
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