Powertweak Linux (original) (raw)

Summary:

Powertweak provides information about your computer hardware and linux kernel setup including:

• DMI BIOS interrogation (not only bios settings, but ports, cpu and events) (NEW)
• some 2.5 linux kernel proc settings (NEW)
• PCI configuration space tuning.
• Adjusting block device elevator algorithms.
• Changing /proc/sys entries.
• hdparm type features (Informational only right now)
• IDE SMART status.
• CPU Model specific register tuning
• CPU MTRR registers (Informational only right now) Powertweak can be used to tune your kernel and hardware configuration for optimal performance, or for viewing hardware and kernel settings. It currently has a graphical GTK GUI, and a simple text based tree lister.

Latest info:

• July 2003 - New release (0.99.5), with DMI BIOS info, lspowertweak console lister
• April 2003 - New development has started
• Sept 2001 - Release 0.99.4 to fix problem in 0.99.3 For more info, see the Overview page.