Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 14 May 2007 21:22:50 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 12 2007 22:12, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > >On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more > >> hours? Which software component causes the most power

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 12 2007 22:12, Alistair John Strachan wrote: >On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more >> hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? >> These are important questions without a goo

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more > hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? > These are important questions without a good answer... until now. This is a really great tool and p

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:00 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 11 2007 16:07, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > A typical Linux distribution has many components that wake the processor up > > frequently for no good reason. In our testing with PowerTOP, we have seen > > many > > cases where with s

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 11 2007 16:07, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > A typical Linux distribution has many components that wake the processor up > frequently for no good reason. In our testing with PowerTOP, we have seen many > cases where with some simple fixes, the battery life of typical laptops was > increased b

Re: Re: Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-11 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by Matt Mackall [Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:39:05PM -0500]: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:40:52AM +0100, Jose Celestino wrote: > > Words by Matt Mackall [Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:17:19PM -0500]: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:07:18PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > > What's eating

Re: Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:40:52AM +0100, Jose Celestino wrote: > Words by Matt Mackall [Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:17:19PM -0500]: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:07:18PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more > > > hours? Which

Re: Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-11 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by Matt Mackall [Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:17:19PM -0500]: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:07:18PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more > > hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? > > These are imp

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:07:18PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more > hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? > These are important questions without a good answer... until now. I get: No detailed

[announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-11 Thread Arjan van de Ven
What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? These are important questions without a good answer... until now. The Linux 2.6.21 kernel introduces the so called tickless-idle feature. This feature allow