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[Armin Rigo <arigo@xxxxxxxxx>]

May I also chime in?  If I wanted my machine to run at Celeron speed, I
would not have bought a core i5.  I think it makes no sense to select
the "powersave" governors by default without telling the user in any
way.  Any non-expert user will not know why his machine runs 2x more
slowly on Linux than Windows.  It sounds like a very good reason to drop
Linux (or, maybe, try a different distribution).

I have read somewhere that intel-pstate's new "performance" is nicely
engineered to cover most use cases; unlike the old "performance" it
doesn't mean the machine will always consume as much power as possible.
In fact the new "performance" consumes less power than the old
"ondemand".  The latter disappeared because the new "performance" covers
the same use cases and more.

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Title:
  ondemand init script sets governor "powersave" when only "powersave"
  and "performance" available

Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  My system seems to have governors "powersave" and "performance"
  available. No others.

  So by ondemand, I end up with "powersave", which makes my workstation
  excruciatingly slow.

  I think that in this case, "performance" should be preferred.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-2.2-generic 4.1.3
  Uname: Linux 4.1.0-2-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Fri Jul 31 17:08:08 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-12 (1752 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  SourcePackage: sysvinit
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2014-11-11 (262 days ago)
  mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.ondemand: 2015-07-31T16:51:58.391407

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