Feature changed by: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) Feature #310149, revision 5 Title: Optimize power consumption while running on battery openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, openSUSE 11.3 does not much to preserve my battery while being unplugged. Intel's powertop came up with many good suggestions that cut the power consumption on my laptop in half! It would be quite a good idea to make the powersave profile do a little bit more than just dim the screen and throttle the CPU. Other suggestions: * turn bluetooth off, radio is always a battery eater * reduce USB polling * enlarge write cache * ...do other things that reduce wakeups to a minimum + Test Case: + powersaving : http://pastebin.org/410555 + maximum performance : http://pastebin.org/410556 + The powersaving script sets all hardware components to save powersaving + modes but skips critical settings like USB suspend which could cause + trouble. + The max performance script reverts all settings previously made by the + powersaving script. + Booth need root privileges! Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Mobile usage is more and more a key scenario. Discussion: #1: Petri Järvenpää (pj69482) (2010-07-19 00:05:31) Could you be more specific what and how you achieved your power consumption improvement? + #2: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) (2010-07-21 10:23:40) + I add my scripts for powersaving and for maximum performance. You could + add them to sudoers, because the need root privileges. I did it this + way and added them as custom scripts to powerdevil profile config. + Works pretty smooth! + Of course you need to adapt the scripts to fit your system (e.g. you + won't need the ATI swith if you have not an system with ATI switchable + graphics), 4 cores etc. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310149

Feature changed by: Richard Brown (RBrownSUSE) Feature #310149, revision 7 Title: Optimize power consumption while running on battery - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Done Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, openSUSE 11.3 does not much to preserve my battery while being unplugged. Intel's powertop came up with many good suggestions that cut the power consumption on my laptop in half! It would be quite a good idea to make the powersave profile do a little bit more than just dim the screen and throttle the CPU. Other suggestions: * turn bluetooth off, radio is always a battery eater * reduce USB polling * enlarge write cache * ...do other things that reduce wakeups to a minimum Test Case: powersaving : http://pastebin.org/410555 (http://pastebin.org/410555) maximum performance : http://pastebin.org/410556 (http://pastebin.org/410556) The powersaving script sets all hardware components to save powersaving modes but skips critical settings like USB suspend which could cause trouble. The max performance script reverts all settings previously made by the powersaving script. Booth need root privileges! Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Mobile usage is more and more a key scenario. Discussion: #1: Petri Järvenpää (pj69482) (2010-07-19 00:05:31) Could you be more specific what and how you achieved your power consumption improvement? #2: Andreas Demmer (ademmer) (2010-07-21 10:23:40) I add my scripts for powersaving and for maximum performance. You could add them to sudoers, because the need root privileges. I did it this way and added them as custom scripts to powerdevil profile config. Works pretty smooth! Of course you need to adapt the scripts to fit your system (e.g. you won't need the ATI swith if you have not an system with ATI switchable graphics), 4 cores etc. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310149