[ltp] HPET timer on thinkpads?

[Jan Kundrát]

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Sorry, but how do you do this on a sleeping machine?

A script was posted earlier in this thread. Basically you read remaining
battery capacity before and after the suspend (which should take at
least several hours and the laptop must not be connected to the AC
adaptor). There's a module for that in hibernate-script, see thinkwiki.or=
g.

> As for an idle machine, what exactly do you mean by "idle"?
> Doesn't the "grep" stop it being idle?

Technically speaking, it does, but for purposes of this measurement, it
is idle enough.

Cheers,
-jkt

--=20
cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth


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