powertop - showing apps that wakeup hard-disk

[Arjan van de Ven]

Bruno wrote:
> Would it be possible to have powertop also list applications that do frequent 
> writes to disk, especially *sync? (not just the kernel thread that does the 
> actual write)
> 
> Spinning up hard-disk is also a power consuming operation.
> 

sounds like a good idea; I'll look into this, on first thought it 
wouldn't be impossible..