i saw that tool in synaptic, but its description is PowerTOP is a Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle.
and in http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ Computer programs can make your computer use more power. PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle. PowerTOP has these four basic goals: - Show how well your system is using the various hardware power-saving features - Show you the culprit software components that are preventing optimal usage of your hardware power savings - Help Linux developers test their application and achieve optimal behavior - Provide you with tuning suggestions to achieve low power consumption can it control the power consumption? actually i need a controller. the heating of CPU is reduced to some extend, but hard disk is still hot 2009/6/17 H <[email protected]> > try powertop > works fine in intel machines... > -- > H > IRC : HFactor | Phone : 09496346709 | PGP : 4634C034 | W : http://hiran.in > George Carlin<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_carlin.html> > - "Electricity is really just organized lightning." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
