[LAU] Balance between performance and noise

[rosea.grammostola]

On 11/27/2010 01:11 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2010 11:24:01 rosea.grammostola wrote:
>    
>> When I set cpu scaling with sudo cpufreq-set -g performance, I have the
>> best proaudio performance on my thinkpad T61. But, that will also heat
>> things up very quickly with as consequence more sound from the fans.
>> The laptop is more silent when I use, sudo cpufreq-set -g ondemand, but
>> I get more xruns then.
>> Is it possible to adjust the ondemand settings to find more balance
>> between performance and noise? How?
>>      
> Set ther cpu-governor to performance (so it doesn't switch frequencies which
> produces xruns) but reduce the maximum allowed frequency.
>    

Thanks. Which numbers are reasonable?

It might be handy to be able to use the cpu-governor performance as it 
is now, sometimes. Is it possible to make another custom governor type 
which is a adjusted 'performance' setting... I read something about a 
userspace governor(?)...

Regards,
/r