<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Igor Stoppa</b> <<a href="mailto:igor.stoppa@nokia.com">igor.stoppa@nokia.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:17 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:<br>> On 8/16/07, Igor Stoppa <<a href="mailto:igor.stoppa@nokia.com">igor.stoppa@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:51 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
<br>> ><br><snip><br>><br>> Battery life eating is a particularly tricky bug to nail down to a<br>> single application (or home applet).<br><br>That's why users shouldn't try a bunch of new apps in one go.
<br>Maybe some way to easily share information about battery life would be<br>useful on <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> ...<br><br>Quim: what do you think about extending the rating of applications so<br>that they could cover several aspects, including but not only battery
<br>usage?</blockquote><div><br>How do we know if an application has good power usage. <br><br>How do we know what the actual current consumption is?<br><br>Does the hardware know what current is being consumed from the battery (and can that info be exposed in/proc or the battery applett) or is the battery app guessing based on the battery voltage?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> > You are proposing a shortcut that is encouraging crappy code to be<br>
> > written, since the system will always take care of saying: "psst,<br>> > pretend to be a properly written piece of code".<br>><br>> Yes, I am. On the basis that this is a) easier and b) more likely than
<br>> getting end-user tools to properly diagnose which applications aren't<br>> well behaved.<br><br>That's not true. Proper tools don't need that. As Eero has already<br>described, it's possible to use existing stats from the system.
</blockquote><div><br>I'm not sure that strace'ing is very ideal <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Powertop is not using such hacks and it works. Users have started
<br>complaining with dfevelopers and developers themselves have taken<br>powerto in use.</blockquote><div><br>Can we run powertop or equivalent on the N800/Maemo?<br></div><br></div><br>