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