PowerTOP tool released; time to fix the wasted laptop power on fedora?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

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.

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