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sysvinit package

  1. Trusty (14.04)
  2. Bug #1314653
  3. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1314653

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: [Bug 1314653] Re: sysvinit: default cpufreq governor to powersave for intel-pstate driver

It's "fix commited", not "fix released" for 14.04. At the moment the new
sysvinit packages are still in trusty -proposed (2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.1

On 03/17/2015 06:41 PM, Norbert-notz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just have installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS on my HP laptop with Intel CORE
> i7 processor. CPU fan has been running at full speed most of the time. I
> found out that performance governor was set (by default) and CPU clock
> was always very high.
>
> I fixed by editing /etc/default/cpufrequtils
> ENABLE=true # default
> GOVERNOR=powersave
>
>
> No I have "powersave" mode after booting by default and quite CPU fan. Clock is now ~1.2 GHz when idling while it is automatically increased on higher load.
>
> I just wanted to file a bug suggesting to set the governor to
> "powersave" by default and found this on.
>
> According to the state of this bug report this should already be fixed.
> Is there a regression in Ubuntu 14.04.x Trusty Tahr?
>