Setting ondemand gevornor instead of performance governor seems not to work

Bug #367336 reported by T-Lo
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Bug Description

I am using Jaunty 64 bit on my Notebook and have seen, that the default gevoernor is now set to performance.
Because I wan't to run the ondemand governor i tryed to change the governor via the gonme applet, but this seems to have no effect. So I tryed 'sudo cpufreq-selector -g ondemand', but I haven't recognized any change again. Even a process with a nice of 19 causes the processor to run in full speed.
In Intrepid I used the ondemand governor too and the cpu was not speeded up by a process with a nice value of 19. So I think these two ways didn't change the governor.

So I tryed (with the hint in bug 344252 ) to compile the kernel with the ondemand governor set as default:

grep -i default_gov /boot/config-2.6.28.9
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set

But this seems to havn't changed anything too. I noticed, that a nice 19 process causes full speed too.
So it seems that I can't change the governor on my notebook.

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad (joerlend.schinstad-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I had a similar problem with Ubuntu Server, only contrary. Ubuntu Server insisted on using ondemand instead of performance, which caused quite a few problems for me. My KVM guest crashed because of it. I tried to configure it to use performance, any way possible. I added entries to /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/sysfs.conf, and it didn't work. After some work, I would that Ubuntu actually had an init script for it, called /etc/init.d/ondemand, which automatically sets the scaling_governor to "ondemand".

It's hardcoded! (I'm going to file a bug on that, which is why I found your report). Perhaps, then, you have a script like/etc/init.d/performance?

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Thanks in advance.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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