CPU Frequency Scaling and Niceness

[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 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...  ;)


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Jan Claeys