Have you reported the error on the PowerTOP mailing list? If not please do http://01.org/powertop There are all the instruction on how to join the mailing list and contribute in case you have a fix for the error you experienced.
BTW what platform are you running? What devices are hindering the power consumption? What version of the linux kernel are you running? The newer the version the better the runtime Power Management you get. Lastly you can place all your PowerTOP tunables or do powertop - - autotune added it to a boot scrip to run it after boot and have your runtime optimized. Thank you, Alexandra. From: Dwijesh Gajadur [mailto:dwije...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:12 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-lap...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PowerTop on Debian Stretch I used PowerTop on Ubuntu 15.10. I found that Ubuntu 15.10 uses PowerTop 2.7. However Debian Stretch uses PowerTop 2.8. And it seems that the bug is in the 2.8 version. I tried to downgrade PowerTop and installed the 2.7 version on Debian. But now I am getting another error line: *** Error in `powertop': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000002418ef0 *** Aborted On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Aleksandar Atanasov <redbaronqu...@gmail.com<mailto:redbaronqu...@gmail.com>> wrote: I understood pretty well what you said. That is why I was so flabbergasted. You are now partially contradicting yourself. Your first post was "Battery is not important" and now "Use it efficiently" (why if it's not important?) and "Battery is not important" at the same time. Now on topic: from what I've seen so far googling this seems to be a bug. Multiple distributions (Arch, RH etc.) have patched this upstream. Not sure if fix is available for Ubuntu (which Ubuntu are we talking about here?) On 10 February 2016 at 08:18, Jos Collin <joscol...@gmail.com<mailto:joscol...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm saying that the battery should be used efficiently. But What I meant was it is not worth bothering too much about battery life, as it is going to die in the near future anyway. -- Elvis Presley: Love is worth all the gold on Earth
