Package: cpufrequtils Severity: normal File: /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils Please do not support switching between different governors for AC versus battery. Several reasons:
- This makes no sense to do in the cpufrequtils init script, which only runs at boot time. Switching between AC and battery does not only occur with a system off. - This makes no sense to do at all. To save the most power, you want your processor to go to the maximum frequency when it has work to do, finish it as fast as possible, and then go back into a deep sleep state. Thus, you want the ondemand governor. Any other governor will cause your system to use more power. See <http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/applications-power-management/race-to-idle.php> and <http://mjg59.livejournal.com/88608.html> for more details. I'd recommend tagging this bug "wontfix" and/or closing it. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cpufrequtils depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcpufreq0 005-1 shared library to deal with the cp ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip cpufrequtils recommends no packages. cpufrequtils suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
