Re: reducing power usage of Fedora - how you can help!

[nodata <lsof nodata co uk>]

Am Freitag, den 10.08.2007, 17:55 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:35 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:27:02 +0200
> > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:06 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > Would you like your laptop battery to last longer? Would you like
> > > > your servers to use less electricity? We certainly would. So we're
> > > > investigating and fixing Fedora to use less juice.
> > > > 
> > > > One of the biggest power problems is apps that wake up the CPU
> > > > unnecessarily. With the tickless kernel for x86 (and soon x86_64),
> > > > every time this happens it's a chance for power savings lost.
> > > > 
> > > > HOW YOU CAN HELP
> > > > ----------------
> > > > 
> > > > We'd like to get as many reports of misbehaving apps as possible.
> > > How about the kernel? My laptop doesn't boot Fedora without acpi
> > > disabled.
> > 
> > Did you file a bug?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213254
> 
> This bug has persisted ever since it had started sometime with fc5.
> 
> Ralf
>  
> 

I'd like to start a "bugs that have been hanging around for ages, but
aren't yet fixed" tracker bug.