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[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

The mentioned performance governor runs the CPU permanently at maximum frequency, which is obviously bad on battery powered devices and on devices with lacking thermal headroom. I think it might cause problems in virtualized environments as well but I'm not sure about that.