On 11/29/2011 05:11 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
How's the battery life on the 1.75 going for Read, web browsing&
suspend? (3 of the most important functions) Anyone doing tests on
these yet?
I have begun doing battery life testing. But aggressive suspend/resume
is not 100% functional yet (but its very close). Until aggressive
suspend resume (ASR) is 100% I can't do a full round of usage mode testing.
I do have some data points and I can give you an minimum value. One of
the nice things about the 1.75 is that its maximum power draw from the
battery is coming in at 5W regardless of how loaded the machine is.
This makes a minimum battery life value much easier to predict. The
average value of the minimum for battery juice is 18Wh. So 18Wh/5W is
3.6hours. So I feel safe in making the claim that regardless of what
you do [1] with a 1.75 you can run for 3.5 hours.
That said you have to have a lot of stuff going to keep that at constant
5W. Certainly using Read or browsing the web you won't be at 5W so the
battery life will be longer.
My existing data points have been collected under the following conditions:
- Machine idle at sugar home screen (zero user input) with power
management off.
- Backlight at our default of 80%.
This is of course an artificial test since zero user input is not very
useful as a battery life estimate but it allows me to do OS to OS
comparisons and represents and upper bound of non-suspend runtime.
In that mode we I see abot 2.75W which on the above 18W est is 6.5 hours
of runtime. I have run logs that range from 6-7 hours for that test.
So I'm expecting to see in-the-wild numbers for people who disable ASR
to be in the 4-5 hour range.
If you are outside and can turn off the backlight then that lower bound
drops to 1.8W. With the backlight off I've got idle runs that show
between 8.5-10 hours.
Throwing ASR into the works adds a _huge_ dynamic. During ASR our low
power drops from 2.75W to about 1.2W and even lower if the backlight has
a chance to dim or turn off. So if you can spend a lot of time in this
mode then the battery life will increase quite a bit.
We don't have any good estimates of how much suspend time you can get
out of things like Read or web browsing. Powerd can now collect this
sort of info but unfortunately a kernel bug in build 860 prevents the
information from being accurate.
If you wanted to help and you have a 1.5 you can. People with 1.5s can
provide accurate usage info they install the latest release, make sure
the date is set correctly, and then allow powerd to do ASR (ie don't
disable it). Then use the XO as you normally would but use it on
battery as much as possible. Only charge up the battery when it gets
low. Powerd logs are kept in /home/olpc/power-logs . After a few
cycles of the battery send me all the logs in that directory.
[1] There's always a disclaimer. :) Thats without any USB devices
plugged in. the USB subsystem can provide up to 5W to an external
device. If you were to also draw 5W from USB then the draw would be 10W
and your battery life will be much less. In between 1 and 1.5h. (The
harder you draw a battery the less capacity it can provide so its not a
straight /2)
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Richard A. Smith <rich...@laptop.org>
One Laptop per Child
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