On 09/08/07, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Would you like your laptop battery to last longer? Would you like your > servers to use less electricity? We certainly would. So we're investigating > and fixing Fedora to use less juice. > > One of the biggest power problems is apps that wake up the CPU > unnecessarily. With the tickless kernel for x86 (and soon x86_64), > every time this happens it's a chance for power savings lost. > > HOW YOU CAN HELP > ---------------- > > We'd like to get as many reports of misbehaving apps as possible. > > 1) Install the 'powertop' package > > 2) Run it in a terminal window on a reasonably idle system with your > normal combination of apps. (If you run it when you're actively > compiling a kernel, watching a movie, or doing other CPU-intensive > things, the results aren't as useful.) > > 3) Note the results. If you'd like to capture them for safe-keeping > later, you can use the (Fedora-specific) '-d' option to dump them > to stdout, rather than pasting from the running app. > > 4) Report the results. You can add reports here, on #fedora-devel, > or to the upstream powertop community at power@xxxxxxxxxxx or > #powertop on irc.oftc.net. > > *** Please use a service such as http://pastebin.ca/ rather than > pasting powertop reports directly to an IRC channel. *** > > If you've got a specific app you know is misbehaving, please > file a bug with the details, and set it to block the 'wakeup' > bug in Fedora bugzilla. (bug number 204948.) > > Thanks for your assistance and help. I see my LCD screen being turned off and on every few seconds when running powertop. Is that normal behaviour? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
