Re: [Powertop] Fwd: Suggested tunables addition: sysctl kernel.core_pattern

[George Barrett <bob at bob131.so>]

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I primarily use my laptop for hacking on my own little projects, so 
this occurs fairly frequently

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Magnus Fromreide 
<magfr(a)lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 09:00:57PM +1100, George Barrett wrote:
>>  Hi, first off thanks for the great tool!
>> 
>>  I currently rely on a systemd unit file present in the Fedora 
>> package for
>>  powertop to do most of my laptop's power saving config on boot, and 
>> it works
>>  great. However, I've noticed a missing tunable which might be 
>> helpful for
>>  some folks: setting the kernel.core_pattern sysctl parameter to 
>> |/dev/null
>>  or similar. On my x220, this parameter set to it's default causes
>>  systemd-coredump to peg a single core, sometimes for quite an 
>> extended
>>  period of time. On many devices this would cause substantially 
>> greater heat
>>  output, and most importantly substantially higher power consumption.
> 
> I have to ask, why do you get enough core dumps for this to be a 
> problem?
> Wouldn't a better solution be to fix the application that dumps core?
> 
> /MF