How are you measuring the power? It also depends on where you are measuring the power? If you are not running any loads, the processor is going to be in idle (waiting for interrupts) and thereby will consume the same power in all scenarios. Praveen On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 2:46am, Shankar Ganesh <shankarganeshk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have Ubuntu Karmic ( Linux Kernel 2.6.31) installed on my netbook[ > ASUS Eeepc - N450 ]. I tried to calculate power variation for ondemand > and performance governors at idle state, after booting and no > background jobs/loads running. But by switching between these > governors, i could observe only frequency change, but the power > consumed by the device is almost same. Is there any important point i > am missing here ? I was expecting that the power consumption will be > reduced on switching to ondemand governor from performance. > > Thanks, > Shankar > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
