Eric Saxe wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > The man page looks good. Here's some more comments: > > " PowerTOP averages the amount of activity that is preventing the CPU > from > entering a lower power state and presents it on the "Wakeups-from-idle > per second" field. This value represents the total number of events > divided by the current interval. Notice that not all events are > displayed on the screen at all times." > > Actually, because all firing cyclics are displayed (without -i), does > the value represent > the number of times a CPU awoke from a lower power idle state?
No, and I would even like to change "Wakeups-from-idle" to something like "Events" or "Activity". IMHO, "Wakeups" is misleading. > " > If running as root (superuser), the tool will make suggestions as how > the system can be improved from a power management perspective." > > root..or are the specific privileges that would work? Only root, as the only supported suggestion at the moment is enabling PM on /etc/power.conf. Don't remember which group is able to modify it, but maybe we can change it to groupid. Would that be the right approach ? thanks Rafael
