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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com>
To: powertop@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [Powertop] Too much memory consumption by powertop
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:54:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554001AD.8020701@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CABsxX9KpabXDAds_1ZOs5BRnAyVb6bLv-k+QOGaAzUAJh28nHQ@mail.gmail.com

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> Maybe a more sensible 250x250 size would be a good default, as I seem to be able to fill a 1080p screen with just under 250 columns, and it would give some scrolling overhead?
>
> that's at least a 16x reduction already compared to 1000x1000.
>
> You could dynamically calculate the number based on the terminal properties, but that would likely break on terminal resizes.

it;s a bit more subtle

this is the canvas on which the text gets put,
your terminal is just a viewport into that canvas.

the number of cpus etc determines how big that canvas needs to be, not the width of our terminal


             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-28 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-28 21:54 Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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2015-04-29 21:14 [Powertop] Too much memory consumption by powertop Alexandra Yates
2015-04-29 17:39 Alexandra Yates
2015-04-28 21:29 Kok, Auke-jan H
2015-04-28 17:14 Alexandra Yates
2015-04-28 15:58 Thomas Renninger

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