On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:25:28AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> I'd like us to do regular power testing of Fedora (around milestones,
> and occasionally in rawhide) with powertop.
>
> Ideally, we'd:
> - have one or two defined hardware platforms
> - have a few defined workloads (idle system, idle desktop, desktop
>   with some apps running)
>
> and then check them periodically to make sure we're not regressing.
>
> Opinions?

I'd also add:

  - after suspend/resume - make sure DISK power saving settings don't change

ie.  on F8, I have to do:

  hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda

to eliminate the current 'click of ultimate demise' problem
with overly
aggressive disk power management
(Unfortunately, I don't know where I can set-it/script-it
to run after a resume.)