[arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

[Calvin Morrison]

On 31 May 2012 11:11, Don deJuan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 08:10 AM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
>>
>> to, 2012-05-31 kello 08:07 -0700, Don deJuan kirjoitti:
>>>
>>> put them in a script such as handler.sh so when
>>> you're on AC or BAT then the script takes care of handling all that?
>>> Seems way easier to me and is what I do.
>>
>> In AUR there is script called powerdown that does all that.
>>
> yup there is but you still need to make sure it is doing everything for your
> system properly. To me it does not cover all the possibilities for every
> machine out there. It is good to look at for example settings though.
>
> I know on my system it missed over half the tuneable's when I gave it a
> shot.

Exactly why using powertop would be much better - it works very well
on my systems and seems to catch all the possible tunables on any
system without me having to rewrite different scripts each time. I'm
envisioning a

powertop --set-all-good

and be done with it.