[ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?

[Rob Beard]

mac wrote:
> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>   
>> 2009/9/8 mac <ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk>:
>>     
>>> Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice,
>>> warnings, gotcha's?
>>>       
>> Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything.
>>     
>
> Thanks, Jonathon, that's reassuring.  So I guess I'll try the suggested 
> fixes for the session to see if they help, and decide whether to adopt 
> them permanently later.
>
> Search results suggest that Powertop is widely used by experienced Linux 
> devotees;  but I never came across anyone mentioning it here, though 
> it's in the Ubuntu repos, so I wonder.  Any thoughts?
>
> mac
>   
Interesting application.  I didn't know about it myself until you 
mentioned it.  I've installed it and enabled a couple of it's 
suggestions, will be interesting to see if it makes any difference 
(although I generally run my laptop in power saving mode anyway so it's 
generally running at 1GHz).

Rob