On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 00:12, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > some of you already know that I've been working on getting Linux (and > Fedora) to be a lot better about power usage on laptops by avoiding > spurious wakeups and context switches and such (look at the "wakeup" bug > in fedora bugzilla ;). > > As part of my job at Intel I've now released a user friendly tool that > allows everyone that uses it to see what the biggest problems on their > own laptop are... The results internally to Intel have been really good; > several people gained an hour of battery just by using the tool and > getting rid of (or fixing) 'broken' applications. > > PowerTOP can be downloaded from http://www.linuxpowertop.org > > > for completeness I've attached the full announcement text I used in > other places below. I hope that enough people will use it and report / > fix issues in software so that the whole Linux experience on laptops > will be a lot better in a few months.. Hey, this is pretty cool. Here's what it says on my amd64 desktop: No detailed statistics available; please enable the CONFIG_TIMER_STATS kernel option Suggestion: Enable the CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND kernel configuration option. This option will automatically disable UHCI USB when not in use, and may save approximately 1 Watt of power. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
