> The biggest reason to say "no" is because it discourages distributions > from fixing things :) > The distros always have to set safe defaults, it is not possible to tune everything to max power save by default. Such approach would result in less performance and higher latency. There will be probably always space for custom tunings for people who needs/like aggressive power saving.
> I would much rather have a separate tool to tune things BTW - let > powertop be the diagnostics tool, and design a separate application > that does the tuning really well - possibly running from an upstream > database that can be upgraded/downloaded quickly. > It is interesting idea, but I think it is currently far from being completed. I am thinking about powertop as diagnostic tool and if it provides tips for tunings I would like to process such output easily. E.g. to scan through it, read the comments (containing the recommendations/warnings about the effects of turning the tuning on/of), uncomment the tunings I like and easily deploy it to my system. Such approach would also allow automated processing of the reports and cooperation with other tuning tools (e.g. our tuned). Parsing the current html report is not easy and it is missing information how to switch the tunings on/off. That's my opinion thanks & regards Jaroslav _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] https://bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
