Re: Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

Matt Mackall
2007-05-12T02:39:22Z

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 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).

That file doesn't exist, despite CONFIG_TIMER_STATS being in
/proc/config.gz.

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