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PowerTOP v2.0 Release

PowerTOP v2.0 Release

Posted May 11, 2012 15:28 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: PowerTOP v2.0 Release by sheepdestroyer
Parent article: PowerTOP v2.0 Release

The more important question is: why aren't these enabled by default in the kernel? Why is there even a tunable?


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PowerTOP v2.0 Release

Posted May 11, 2012 16:53 UTC (Fri) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

Because they either crash bad hardware, or are bad for performance.

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