PowerTop – Bad: NMI watchdog should be turned off
by kiawin
PowerTop rated a “Bad” for “NMI watchdog should be turned off”.
From Arch’s thread it was found out that NMI is fairly not needed.
To disable it,
# sudo su
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
# exit
To check the changes, you may:
# less /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
You should get 0 instead of a 1.
Comments
There is a typo in the command to check the results. Should be ‘less /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog’.
JMA
Thanks for correcting :)