Desktop pc governor defaults to ondemand. This a laptop mode. It should default to performance

[philinux]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

On demand and conservative and powersave are there for laptops I thought.

No wonder my pc has seemed sluggish. Since I delved into cpu freq scaling and saw the difference between the default and performance.

Surely a desktop pc can be detected and the governor set to performance. Laptop-mode gets installed as default so is the bug there?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 29 17:27:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-applets 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Bug #343354 states that it's the opposite - performance is default even though people want ondemand.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The applet doesn't really have anything to do with default policy

[Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire)]

The governor policy is set by the kernel, reassigning this bug there.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi philinux,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[philinux (philcb)]

Can you explain how the upstream kernel will solve this. I though the settings we held in system files similar to /etc/init.d/ondemand

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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