- Added full network support

- Moved docs around a bit

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/HOWTO.txt b/doc/TIPS.txt
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 === Simple user tips for improving power usage ===
+* Use a properly dimensioned system for the job (no need for overpowered systems for simple Desktop use e.g.) 
+* For servers consolidate services on fewer systems to maximize efficiency of each system
 * Enforce turning of machines that are not used (e.g. company policy)
+* Unplug and/or turn of peripherals that aren't used (e.g. external USB devices, monitors, printers, scanners)
 * Turn of unused hardware already in BIOS.
 * Disable power hungry features.
 * Enable CPU scaling if supported for ondemand CPU governor. DONT use powersave governor, typically uses more power than ondemand
@@ -12,17 +15,24 @@
 ** hdparm -S240 /dev/sda (20m idle to spindown)
 ** hdparm -B1 /dev/sda (Max powersave mode)
 * Make sure writes to hd don't wake it up too quickly:
-** Set flusing to once every hour
-** echo "360000" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
+** Set flusing to once 5 minutes
+** echo "3000" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
 ** Enable laptop mode
-** echo "1" > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
+** echo "5" > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
+* Use relatime for your / partition
+** mount -o remount,relatime / 
+* Disable CD-ROM polling from HAL (prevents popups when a CD is inserted):
+** hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 
+* Enable USB autosuspend by adding the following to the kernel boot commandline:
+** usbcore.autosuspend=5 
 * Screensaver needs to dpms off the screen, not just make colors black.  To turn of monitor after 120s when X is running:
 ** xset dpms 0 0 120
 
 === Simple programmer tips for improving power usage ===
+* Avoid unecessary work/computation
 * Wake up only when necessary
-* No poll() calls
-* If you wake up, do everything at once (race to idle)
+* Do not actively poll in programs or use short regular timeouts, rather react to events 
+* If you wake up, do everything at once (race to idle) and as fast as possible
 * Use large buffers to avoid frequent disk access. Write one large block at a time
 * Don't use [f]sync() if not necessary
 * Group timers accross applications if possible (even systems)