Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Thanks folks, It does sound like it is just a hardware specific bug. I will take this upstream. Dan On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Phillip Susi ps...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: Yeah, I saw that.  I think that is also on wikipedia.  So maybe ondemand is

ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hey folks, Anyone know about the difference between the ondemand vs conservative frequency governors? I'm on a core2duo dual core intel type chip, and I am getting much better performance with conservative selected. I first heard about the conservative governor in the context of getting better

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Hey, Google gives me this: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Dynamic_Frequency_Scaling The ondemand (available since 2.6.10) and conservative (since 2.6.12) are governors based on in kernel implementations of CPU scaling algorithms: they scale the CPU frequencies according to the

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Yeah, I saw that. I think that is also on wikipedia. So maybe ondemand is for battery usage. It would still be nice to have conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop. I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer. Dan On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:54 PM,