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< Features | PowerManagement
Powertop makes suggestions. We wish it wouldn't, because they're often either things the OS could get right for you, or things that actively degrade the user experience beyond their powersaving karma. This is a list of the suggestions it makes, and what we plan to do about them.
Contents
- 1 Various kernel config options
- 2 Disable the unused bluetooth interface
- 3 Enable the ondemand cpu speed governor for all processors
- 4 Disable Ethernet Wake-On-Lan
- 5 Enable laptop-mode
- 6 Disable the NMI watchdog
- 7 Enable the HPET in your BIOS or add the kernel patch to force-enable HPET
- 8 Enable AC97 powersave mode
- 9 Enable the noatime filesystem option
- 10 Enable the power aware CPU scheduler
- 11 Increase the VM dirty writeback time
- 12 Enable SATA ALPM link power management
- 13 Enable USB autosuspend
- 14 Enable wireless power saving mode
- 15 Disable the unused WIFI radio
- 16 Disable TV out