14:01:42 <jskarvad> #startmeeting PowerManagement 14:01:42 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed Mar 9 14:01:42 2011 UTC. The chair is jskarvad. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 14:01:42 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 14:02:08 <jskarvad> hi, 14:02:12 <jskarvad> recap: 14:02:42 <jskarvad> We are concerned in benchmarks that can be used for comparisons regarding the power consumption. 14:04:13 <jskarvad> During last week I put together several benchmarks, namely DOTS (for MySQL), AB (for Apache), Postmark (filesystem benchmark simulating the Mail server load), HPL (Linpack) and several in-house tests (e.g. kernel compilation, unpack, read/write, etc.). 14:04:53 <jskarvad> I would like to have the testsuite that could be used for automatic regression testing regarding the power consumption. 14:06:00 <jskarvad> Currently I am working on the reporter/visualization module, it will be completed in several days. 14:07:05 <jskarvad> I would like to use it for F15 testing. 14:08:39 <jskarvad> Another idea was to create the "real life desktop" workloads. 14:09:47 <jskarvad> In first approach we could drive the firefox browser to browse through several WWW pages (containing the Java script, Flash, video ...) and to generate some workload. 14:10:49 <jskarvad> This type of benchmark would be reusable cross-platform. 14:12:21 <jskarvad> I focused on Chickenfoot - the firefox plugin for writing/replaying the macros. 14:12:30 <jskarvad> But this plugin doesn't work with the Firefox 4 at the moment 14:13:11 <jskarvad> The iMacros plugin seems to work, but it is not the open source. 14:14:16 <jskarvad> But it is free so it shouldn't be problem. 14:14:44 <jskarvad> I added it to our todo page. 14:15:23 <jskarvad> Last week jmarko offered to check the usability of the jquery project. 14:16:02 <jskarvad> It could be used cross-browser. 14:16:25 <jskarvad> jmarko is sick today so hopefully there will be more information about it next week. 14:16:58 <jskarvad> Next, the PM Test Day is planned on 2011-03-24. 14:17:26 <jskarvad> We are almost complete with our PM features. 14:17:47 <jskarvad> The powertop-1.97 (aka 2.0 beta) recently got into F15 stable. 14:18:24 <jskarvad> It seems there is little incompatibility with the F15 ncurses, but it doesn't affect the core functionality. 14:18:41 <jskarvad> I will fix it soon. 14:19:55 <jskarvad> Also I finished the tuned patch that adds dynamic FSB switching for EEEPCs according to CPU load. 14:20:08 <jskarvad> I sent it to jvcelak (tuned upstream) and it was accepted. 14:21:39 <jskarvad> During next week I will focus on completion of scripts for automatic tuned testing, which I would like to use during the Test Day. 14:22:41 <jskarvad> I got one RFE during the last week. 14:23:00 <jskarvad> It is about the hibernation. 14:23:51 <jskarvad> The reporter would like to see notification / dialog in case the hibernation process will fail (by e.g. not enough free memory). 14:25:09 <jskarvad> In F14 and later pm-utils returns error code which is catched by upowerd. 14:26:41 <jskarvad> But there is no error dialog, only the desktop is silently locked. 14:26:54 <jskarvad> I added this RFE to our todo page. 14:27:30 <jskarvad> That's all information from me today. 14:28:32 <jskarvad> Any questions, comments, ideas? 14:35:26 <jskarvad> OK, more next week. 14:35:33 <jskarvad> #endmeeting