Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2011-02-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 03 2010, Ludovic Brenta wrote: Therefore, powernowd is indeed obsolete, but one must change the governor manually to ondemand upon purging the package, or reboot. It is not obsolete for computers that don't even load ondemand. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br

Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2010-11-03 Thread Philipp Kern
severity 602052 normal Ludovic, On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:53:37AM +0100, Ludovic Brenta wrote: After reading this bug report, I removed powernowd from my system. The CPU frequency immediately jumped from 800 MHz to the maximum 2000 MHz and stayed there, even if the machine was idle. I

Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2010-11-03 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: what does /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor show after deinstallation of powernowd? It says userspace. After further investigation, here is what I understand: * the default governor is ondemand. * powernowd changes this to userspace on

Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2010-11-02 Thread Ludovic Brenta
tags 602052 moreinfo thanks After reading this bug report, I removed powernowd from my system. The CPU frequency immediately jumped from 800 MHz to the maximum 2000 MHz and stayed there, even if the machine was idle. I reinstalled powernowd and the CPU frequency went back to 1800, then 1600,

Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2010-11-02 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:53:37AM +0100, Ludovic Brenta wrote: tags 602052 moreinfo thanks After reading this bug report, I removed powernowd from my system. The CPU frequency immediately jumped from 800 MHz to the maximum 2000 MHz and stayed there, even if the machine was idle. I

Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2010-11-02 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Andreas Henriksson writes: It's apparently much more efficient to IDLE as much as possible to save power, and to do that you should be running the processor on as high speed as possible to get whatever work you need to get done finished as soon as possible to maximize the time that can be used

Bug#602052: powernowd: Drop obsolete package

2010-11-02 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:43:14PM +0100, Ludovic Brenta wrote: OK, this seems very reasonable but could you please tell me how to *practically* achieve that? http://www.lesswatts.org/ has tips and tricks... Try your preferred support forum for more information. The bug tracking system is not a