Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:22:37 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v1] Tunable sched_mc_power_savings=n |
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:06:28AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ok distcc is a special case, but it doesn't apply to a lot of other > processes (do you really want your CPU to crank up for "updatedb" or > beagle or some backup job for example?)
If something's CPU-bound, then you almost certainly want to speed the CPU up. There's no power advantage to leaving it at a low frequency. I'd be surprised if things like beagle or updatedb are CPU-bound, though.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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