What is the optimal CPU governor for general use?

[Colin Ian King]

Hi there,

One more installment in the quest to find the best configuration 
settings to reduce power consumption. This time we examine the CPU 
frequency governors.

Data:
     
http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/cpu-governor/cpu-governors.ods
Results:
     
http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/cpu-governor/results.txt

Summary:
     ondemand seems optimal, concurring with Arjan van de Ven (see
     http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2007-May/000073.html)