Linux news

2007 05 15

First Glimpse of Intel's New Power Monitoring Tool

Detecting and reducing power consumption in Linux

So, if you want to tune your Linux box for ultimate power efficiency, enable the tickless-idle feature in your kernel, grab PowerTOP, and start locating applications or drivers that aren't working as effieciently as they should be.

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Related: Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

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.

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