From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jose Celestino Subject: Re: Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 02:40:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20070512014052.GA4082@co.sapo.pt> References: <4644F726.1050806@linux.intel.com> <20070512001718.GY11166@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070512001718.GY11166@waste.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Mackall Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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 important questions without a good answer... until now. > > I get: > > No detailed statistics available; please enable the CONFIG_TIMER_STATS > kernel option > Must run as root (rw to /proc/timer_stats is needed). -- Jose Celestino ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msversus.org/ ; http://techp.org/petition/show/1 http://www.vinc17.org/noswpat.en.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- "And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods." -- Thomas D. Pate