[Nix-dev] powertop kernel

2012-02-13 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I want to do some power usage tuning for my laptop, or at least gain some insights into how my battery is spent. I understand I need the powertop tool to do this, and I found that it complains about some kernel config options. I found the _powertop kernel variants, which are probably what

Re: [Nix-dev] powertop kernel

2012-02-14 Thread Arie Middelkoop
On 13-02-12 22:24, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to do some power usage tuning for my laptop, or at least gain > some insights into how my battery is spent. > I understand I need the powertop tool to do this, and I found that it > complains about some kernel config options. Compare the

Re: [Nix-dev] powertop kernel

2012-02-14 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 13/02/12 22:24, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > I want to do some power usage tuning for my laptop, or at least gain > some insights into how my battery is spent. > I understand I need the powertop tool to do this, and I found that it > complains about some kernel config options. > > I found the _p

Re: [Nix-dev] powertop kernel

2012-02-14 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arie Middelkoop wrote: > On 13-02-12 22:24, Mathijs Kwik wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I want to do some power usage tuning for my laptop, or at least gain >> some insights into how my battery is spent. >> I understand I need the powertop tool to do this, and I found

Re: [Nix-dev] powertop kernel

2012-02-22 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:53:48 +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > If there is little overhead to the powertop kernel config compared to the > default kernel config, then feel free to merge it into the default kernel > config > and get rid of the powertop kernels. I did that now after using 3.0 powertop