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Yeah, users' reports of its effectiveness seem to vary wildly. My suspicion is that it depends heavily on the CPU governor [1] a device uses. Some will see tha
by zackelan 14y ago
Yeah, users' reports of its effectiveness seem to vary wildly.
My suspicion is that it depends heavily on the CPU governor [1] a device uses. Some will see that process running once a second, and keep the CPU at or near max frequency 100% of the time. Others will back down more quickly and you won't see much of a benefit, and still others were probably running at max frequency even before the change, so it wouldn't have much of an effect on them either.
[1]: http://androidforums.com/xperia-mini-all-things-root/513426-android-cpu-governors-explained.html http://androidforums.com/xperia-mini-all-things-root/513426-...
- StavrosK 14y agoMaybe. I symlinked /dev/urandom to /dev/random, so I wouldn't have noticed a difference if that were a case, as I didn't.
- juliano_q 14y agoI installed the patch and my CPU frequencies looks like the same, they are not scaling to max all the time. That said it is hard to notice any significant improvement after installing it.
- ricardobeat 14y agoThere are other fixes for the entropy depleting in that thread which do not affect CPU frequencies, and still get reports of improvements.
- lotyrin 14y agoReports of improvements? Like with numbers? From what I can tell, this is the technological-age incarnation of superstition.