On Wed, 06.11.13 16:01, Bill Nottingham (notting(a)redhat.com) wrote:
Elad Alfassa (elad(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> It'd be awesome if we could make sure default Fedora Workstation will have
> "laptop mode" on by default.
> Right now I need to run a script that changes many power tunables (got the
> list from powertop) to save battery on my laptop. It should be default.
> Perhaps detect if the machine is on-battery and if so enable all power
> saving features (disable watchdog, increase the
> vm_dirty_writeback_centisecs value, and so on)?
> Can this be part of upower? Can we have a setting in Settings for that?
> (Something like "Enable power saving when on battery (decreases
> performance)"?
Isn't this the sort of thing that should ship by default? (Whether in a
tuned profile or something else.)
The last time I discussed this with Matthew Garrett we came to the
conclusion that this isn't something we want for the general case. Best
is to ping him about this.
I am pretty sure that "tuned" is nothing we ever want to ship by
default. To "tune" something is the opposite of having good defaults. We
want good defaults, no tuning.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat