Tag: ubuntu

Reducing power consumption on the HP Probook 4720s and Ubuntu 12.04

As said earlier, Ubuntu 12.04 does a good job with power management on the 4720s. With some manual settings power consumption can be further decreases, albeit not much this time. I wrote this script which takes a parameter: on: enable power management settings off: disable power management settings extra: on + enable extensive power management … Continue reading Reducing power consumption on the HP Probook 4720s and Ubuntu 12.04 →

Eclipse 3.7, SVNKit, Ubuntu 64bit

Maybe it is my impression, but the combination mentioned in the title just does not work. After a successful synchronization with the repository Eclipse will insist that there are still local changes, but SVN will refuse to commit them. When forcefully committed (overwrite and commit) the repository will claim to have changes which however don't … Continue reading Eclipse 3.7, SVNKit, Ubuntu 64bit →

Reducing HP 4720s power consumption under Ubuntu Linux 11.10

Mainly annoyed by the loud fan I looked into ways of reducing power consumption of the HP Probook 4720s and came up with this script: #!/bin/sh -e # Increase filesystem write cache timeoutecho 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs # Enable power management on all PCI devices find /sys/devices/pci* -path "*power/control" -exec bash -c "echo auto > '{}'" … Continue reading Reducing HP 4720s power consumption under Ubuntu Linux 11.10 →