Rob Beard wrote: > John Matthews wrote: > >> Rob Beard wrote: >> >> >>> mac wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> 2009/9/8 mac <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but >> have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program. >> >> Thank you. >> >> John. >> >> >> > I just ran the command > > sudo powertop > > from a terminal window. > > Rob > > > Hi Both, thank you for the replies, I finally managed to take a look using the Terminal, and I will have to go through the website to see what I can do. One thing does worry me, I only have Firefox and Thunderbird open, and its using up over 60% CPU and that is whilst being idle, and not sure why. Will take a look at that to see what I can work out.
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