rc.local not executing commands

[silver.bullet at zoho.com]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:50:28 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: 
>how do you determine that it is not working, note that there is a
>"ondemand" system job that enforces the ondemand governor after boot
>(has a 60sec delay) which might set different cpufreq defaults after
>your code ran ...

So a race condition seemingly is caused by /etc/init.d/ondemand from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/initscripts and the OP needs to disable
it first. However, after disabling it, I still recommend to use a
systemd unit.

Regards,
Ralf