On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Evan wrote: > I just updated to from Intrepid to Jaunty, and I noticed something curious. > I believe this is a bug, but even if it isn't, I thought it should be > raised. > > If a cpu (or core) is set to "Ondemand" and an application with a high nice > value is running: > - In intrepid, the cpu remained scaled down > - In jaunty the cpu scales up to 100% > > I found a website [1] which does a good job of explaining it, and I tried > setting my ignore_nice_load to 1, but nice processes still scale the > processor up. Unless I am mistaken, this is a bug. What information should I > attach to the bug report?
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. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/88608.html Marius Gedminas -- Perl is not a programming language, it's a natural language that computers understand. Better than people, for the most part. -- Steve Simmons
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