On Wed, 6 May 2026 14:00:01 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said:
what i see is a total power usage (xps13, 8th gen i7) when e is idle, just updating its stuff like battery, cpufreq etc. screen dimmed to 30% - total system usage 2.76w. i get 69% of time in c8. 15% in c2, the rest c3->c7 in small percentages. powertop is not giving me wakeups/sec for any processes. > On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 06:16:46PM +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Wed, 6 May 2026 04:22:21 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said: > > > > what is the state you want to achieve? is this screen off (dpms) or dimmed > > or fully on i.e. active you doing things? > > Screen is on, but dimmed. > Powertop is showing lots of wakeups for E, so I was tryinng to lower the > amount (unless 200-ish event/s is normal for E) > > > there is no such rpc - so no point looking for it. what e does to is listen > > to things going on like screen blanking, or timeouts after idle and dimming > > things. anything polling will be fairly slow polling - every few SECONDS > > maybe every second at worst. if anything updates on screen at all it > > involved e (the wm/compositor) waking up and having to deal with it (over > > several series of wakeups). e will watch your ac vs battery state and set > > an internal powersv level and adapt internally to save power. if you had a > > less ancient e you'd have a cpufreq popup on the gadget with a slider to > > set various power levels (from powersave through to balanced low, balanced > > hi and performance). > > Attached are the only widgets I'm running. Is there a way for me to know > which one(s) could cause up to 200 wakeups per second? > > I see debian now has E 0.27.1, will that help my situation potentially? > I can look at upgrading and hoping it doesn't bring new version related > problems :) > > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP > 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
