[arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

[Calvin Morrison]

On 31 May 2012 04:47, Martin Cigorraga <msx at archlinux.us> wrote:
> From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't
> activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs
> the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no activity on it and
> that can be very annoying, believe me xD
> Combining Powertop 2 with Liquorix kernel, Ulatencyd, e4rat, preload and
> some more fancy tweakes here and there -sysctl.conf, grub kernel line,
> etc.- I have a feather-light, lightspeed KDE SC full suite with every eye
> candy effect on and the best part is my notebook -Pavilion dv7-4287cl-
> reminds _cool_ all the time.
>
> --
> -msx

One thing that bugs me is the tunables section - you have to open up
powertop every time you boot to set it correctly.

I wish there was some way to just say "ok powertop - make all of the
tunables good just by running" or "ok powertop make x y and z good,
based on this tunable config file".

Seems like that would be a good feature.