Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > When the output is going to the terminal, then the terminal is consuming > CPU, and the frequency scales up. So it's faster when we show the > output, even though we're doing more work, because the CPU clock is > faster. That's disgustingly sick and crazy ;-). But it does explain the symptom and it sounds like that "powersave" is a poor match for measurement. > Switching to the "performance" governor makes the problem go > away. > ... > So no effect on the series (good), but I didn't want to leave the > mystery unsolved on the list. :) Thanks.
