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| author |   Leo C <leoc@gmx.com> | 2018-12-21 22:30:08 -0900 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2018-12-21 22:30:08 -0900 |
| commit | 430a9f50750c0a922f52e9795a240116efc45fed (patch) | |
| tree | 11c9fe8c0b296ac4380bf85310a25aa24078c881 /system/fatrace/README | |
| parent | 3223df8be14de9965c6b97d5eb3c347d35e4f766 (diff) | |
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system/fatrace: Added (file access trace).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/fatrace/README b/system/fatrace/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e986031f20 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/fatrace/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +fatrace reports file access events from all running processes. +Its main purpose is to find processes which keep waking up the disk +unnecessarily and thus prevent some power saving. + +Included is a python3 script called "power-usage-report", which uses +fatrace and powertop to build a textual report from one minute of +measuring power usage and file accesses. This does not take any +arguments or requires any interactivity, so is very simple to use and +serves as a starting point for bug reports or optimizing a particular +installation. |