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From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:58:23
Message-Id: 200706031946.15258.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;) by Elias Probst
1 Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:19 schrieb Elias Probst:
2 > On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote:
3 > > Hi guys!
4 > >
5 > > I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo
6 > > consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W
7 > >
8 > > PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware
9 > > is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and
10 > > cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some
11 > > software.
12 > >
13 > > Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go?
14 >
15 > Try this:
16 > http://www.linuxpowertop.org/powertop.php
17 >
18 > Regards, Elias P.
19
20 Nice software, will be handy in the future. Thanks again!
21 However, it seems I'll have to wait until sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.21 is
22 marked stable for AMD64.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;) Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>