14:01:42 <jskarvad> #startmeeting PowerManagement
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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