test proposal: powertop!

[Chuck Anderson]

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?

Agreed.  I'd add some things to that:

- after suspend/resume - make sure power saving settings don't change
- check both ac vs. battery