I've discovered that the behaviour of the CPU frequency settings has changed. The monitor applet offers 4 settings: "conservative", "ondemand", "performance", and "powersave".
Previously, the "ondemand" setting only pushed cpu frequency up to 100% when I invoked a foreground process, like indexing a lot of usenet articles. Boinc processes niced at 19, which ran all the time, were run at a lower frequency. Now, "ondemand" seems to run Boinc (NI 19) at 100%, and when boinc is not running and I invoke other processes (NI 0) it seems, subjectively, much slower to push up to 100% than before, though that might be a function of the monitor applet. As far as I can see on my PC, there isn't any practical difference between "conservative" and "powersave", nor between "ondemand" and "performance" when I'm running something like boinc that runs continually. I haven't yet located the documentation that defines these governors and how they should work. -- ignore_nice_load ignored in processor scaling https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
