[Testing] IPFire 2.29 – Core Update 197

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Yes, you can configure the governor manually in /etc/sysconfig/cpupower by setting something like this:

GOVERNOR=ondemand

With CU 197, on my N100 firewall, the governor has shifted from performance to powersave.

What changed your mind?

Cpufrequtils - missing governors

powersave is normally what desktop distributions use by default. In IPFire, we use “performance” which does not sent the CPU into deep sleep because it can take a long time to wake up the CPU and that will increase network latency. In our benchmark, we could not measure any significant discrepancies in power consumption.