I primarily use my laptop for hacking on my own little projects, so
this occurs fairly frequently
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Magnus Fromreide
<magfr(a)lysator.liu.se> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 09:00:57PM +1100, George Barrett wrote:
> Hi, first off thanks for the great tool!
>
> I currently rely on a systemd unit file present in the Fedora
> package for
> powertop to do most of my laptop's power saving config on boot, and
> it works
> great. However, I've noticed a missing tunable which might be
> helpful for
> some folks: setting the kernel.core_pattern sysctl parameter to
> |/dev/null
> or similar. On my x220, this parameter set to it's default causes
> systemd-coredump to peg a single core, sometimes for quite an
> extended
> period of time. On many devices this would cause substantially
> greater heat
> output, and most importantly substantially higher power consumption.
I have to ask, why do you get enough core dumps for this to be a
problem?
Wouldn't a better solution be to fix the application that dumps core?
/MF