Comment 4 for bug 67341

I'd agree with Justin's comments. I was just bitten by this setting up BOINC on my laptop, and suddenly have the CPU speed (and thus CPU fan speed) shoot through the roof because of BOINC's 95% idle usage. Clearly, this should not be intended behaviour for any power scheduler that something running at idle priority should cause it to raise the CPU speed, and this is doubly true on a laptop running off batteries.

In any case, I'm also in favour of having this behaviour at least be controllable from /etc/default/powernowd until bug #94309 is resolved.