Re: Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Matt Mackall [Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:17:19PM -0500]:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:07:18PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more 
> > hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned? 
> > These are important questions without a good answer... until now.
> 
> I get:
> 
> No detailed statistics available; please enable the CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
> kernel option
> 

Must run as root (rw to /proc/timer_stats is needed).

-- 
Jose Celestino
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