From 4c24861057e8062513991a024828b2923ab436a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ondrej Čerman Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 17:59:11 +0100 Subject: Updated readme: added capabilities workaround --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index eae530f..85f02ce 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ make You can launch app by `sudo ./zenmonitor`, or you can install it to your system and then launch it from your OS menu. Note: Because superuser privileges are usually needed to access data from MSR driver, you need to launch zenmonitor as root for monitoring CPU power usage (RAPL). +Alternatively, you can set capabilities to zenmonitor executable: `sudo setcap cap_sys_rawio,cap_dac_read_search+ep ./zenmonitor` ## Command line arguments -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2