Package: tlp Version: 1.1-2 Severity: wishlist Hi,
powertop is sometimes overzealous to report configuration as "bad" while it isn't. Especially "interesting" cases are SATA link power management (where med_power_with_dipm is flaged as 'Bad') and VM writeback timeout (where anything != the powertop-decided 1500 is 'Bad'). I have just spent time to find out from the tlp code that it's the value of MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_BAT that get written to the dirty_writeback_centisecs value that powertop wants to be 14500 to badly. I was therefore able to determine that powertop is wrong here. Please consider writing into /etc/default/tlp information, which sysfs/procfs/other values are affected by a certain setting to make things easier for people without them having to look at the code. Thanks for providing tlp! Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.20.12-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tlp depends on: ii hdparm 9.58+ds-1 ii iw 5.0.1-1 ii lsb-base 10.2018112800 ii pciutils 1:3.5.2-1 ii rfkill 2.33.1-0.1 ii usbutils 1:010-3 ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-13 Versions of packages tlp recommends: ii ethtool 1:4.19-1 ii linux-cpupower 4.19.20-1 ii tlp-rdw 1.1-2 Versions of packages tlp suggests: ii acpi-call-dkms 1.1.0-4 ii smartmontools 6.6-1 pn tp-smapi-dkms <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/tlp changed [not included] -- no debconf information