I use the following one liner for regression tests of the cpufreq governor and
friends:

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ time factor 819734028463158891

which usually needs 5.5 secs to complete at 1.7 GHz of my pentium M processor.

With the  current git sources (commit cfa76f0 at Sat Oct 20 20:19:15 2007 -0700)
instead this command needs 3 times longer if I run the "distributed.net client"
as a background process with nice level 19 b/c the cpu frequency still stays
at 600 MHz.
After stopping dnetc the cpu frequency governor ondemand works as expected again.

Tested at my ThinkPad T41 with stable Gentoo:

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ grep -e ^CONFIG_ACPI -e ^CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ ~/devel/linux-2.6/.config
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y

-- 
MfG/Sincerely

Toralf Förster
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