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From: James D. Howard <jhoward at alumni.caltech.edu>
Subject: Re: [Powertop] Why tunables settings no permanent?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:08:35 -0700
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Bill V. asked about the persistence of settings determined by - or set
using - PowerTop.  Auke K. replied that it is not designed that way,
because the Linux distribution is supposed to "properly tune your system
for you".

Boy, I wish that were true more often. It appears that aggregated PowerTop
reports could help Linux distribution engineers identify some consistently
non-optimal settings, and guide repairs or install-time setup.  Have any
attempts been made - to your knowledge - to provide such feedback to the
distributions?  Through what methods?
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James D. Howard, jhoward(a)alumni.caltech.edu


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