Re: [gpm] New preferences UI

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 21:12 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
[...]
> and I've noticed conservative and
> ondemand take quite a while to "ramp up" when the cpu load goes up.

AFAIK, the only reason to choose between ondemand and conservative are
which cpu you have, and it's not a "some users of cpu X might like
conservative better" sort of choice -- it should essentially be
hardcoded.

I think davej is planning on fixing ondemand to work correctly for the
CPUs where conservative is preferred (the only real difference is a time
threshold that has to be passed before switching), but Dave's a pretty
busy guy...

> Some people might also not want the computer to scale at all.

Is this really the case, or is that just what they say when we do a poor
(or just plain _incorrect_) job of scaling?

> Maybe these are all just excuses - maybe we should just say
> "ondemand" (or conservative if available) for battery power, and
> "performance" on AC.

This isn't the right idea either.  "performance on AC" means my battery
doesn't get charged in a reasonable amount of time.  It also means my
desktop machine takes significantly more power than necessary while I'm
at lunch.

"performance" is really always a terrible choice, AFAICS.

-- 
  Peter