May I also chime in? If I wanted my machine to run at Celeron speed, I would not have bought a core i5. I think it makes no sense to select the "powersave" governors by default without telling the user in any way. Any non-expert user will not know why his machine runs 2x more slowly on Linux than Windows. It sounds like a very good reason to drop Linux (or, maybe, try a different distribution).
I have read somewhere that intel-pstate's new "performance" is nicely engineered to cover most use cases; unlike the old "performance" it doesn't mean the machine will always consume as much power as possible. In fact the new "performance" consumes less power than the old "ondemand". The latter disappeared because the new "performance" covers the same use cases and more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to sysvinit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1480320 Title: ondemand init script sets governor "powersave" when only "powersave" and "performance" available Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: My system seems to have governors "powersave" and "performance" available. No others. So by ondemand, I end up with "powersave", which makes my workstation excruciatingly slow. I think that in this case, "performance" should be preferred. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-2.2-generic 4.1.3 Uname: Linux 4.1.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Fri Jul 31 17:08:08 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-12 (1752 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) SourcePackage: sysvinit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2014-11-11 (262 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.ondemand: 2015-07-31T16:51:58.391407 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/1480320/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
