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Am Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:05:03PM +0200 schrieb Guillermo García: |
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> Hello guys, |
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> I bought a laptop and i got like 4 hours of batter life, everything ok, |
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> (using more than 1 vm, etc), however now in idle my laptop has only 1 hour |
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> of life, which is really annoying because its a brand new laptop bought one |
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> year before. |
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> Here is my upower -d in case its necessary: |
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If it’s an Intel laptop, check powertop. It will tell you all sorts of |
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causes for power usage, including interrupts, display, different chips, |
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their sleep states and so on. Also check whether your CPU can reach the |
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deepest C-state available. I’m not sure how much the tool helps on an AMD |
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system, since I don’t have one yet. |
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Anecdote: when I bought my passively cooled mini-PC with an Intel N5100, it |
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drew 10 W from the socket. I was a bit disappointed, because I knew it could |
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do less. Powertop told me that it remained at C3 and did not enter C6. I |
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checked for a BIOS upgrade and – sure enough – there was one and the |
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changelog said something about C states. After the upgrade, C6 was available |
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and power draw decreased to 6..7 W. |
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Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. |
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