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Florian Philipp ha scritto: |
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> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: |
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> 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even without |
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> its delayed disk write feature. |
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Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact. :) |
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> 2. Displays are by far the biggest energy consumers. Lower its |
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> brightness as far as possible. Some laptops even allow you to switch its |
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> backlight off - very nice if you are outdoor. |
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That's what I do (Never tried outdoor however). Somehow the pommed |
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daemon seems less granular in managing the screen than OS X, however. |
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> 3. Use the powersave-governor. If you really need the additional power |
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> ondemand offers, try the conservative-governor. It increases the clock |
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> rate slower than ondemand and might stop it from jumping too fast too |
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> high. |
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Thanks for the tip! |
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> 4. Try sys-power/powertop. It shows you processes creating a lot up |
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> wakeups for the CPU. It also gives you tips on your kernel config. |
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Thanks too. I know about powertop but it complains about something not |
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correctly set up in my kernel. I have to do this janitorial work. |
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> 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... |
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Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? I think it's just my |
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system suffering some unavoidable limits with new machines, while Apple |
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of course designed OS X around its own machines. |
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> Hope this helps. |
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Thanks a lot! |
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