cpufreq governor vs. powernowd

Paul Sladen ubuntu at paul.sladen.org
Fri Aug 18 18:50:17 BST 2006


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <nigde at mitechki.net> wrote:
> > 1. Remove powernowd from the default install
> would be nicer to have powernowd doing its magic when the laptop is on
> battery (it does increase the battery life quite significantly), 

Are you able to help come up with a harness for collecting some real-world
results on this, there are various other factors, such as the additional CPU
time and 'powernowd' consumes from running itself;  and ideally we need to
be able to take all of these into account.

	-Paul
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