On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:55 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running SuSE 10.2 on a dual core laptop for a while (looking > forward to upgrading to 10.3, but that has to be planned for first). > > I have had abysmal battery performance from the start (new machine, new > battery). I pretty much dismissed this on the "well, Toshiba won't tell > anyone except micky$loth how to drive their power management stuff, so I'm > stuck with it. > > However, I just shut down beagle (finally! been meaning to for ages) and > discovered that my battery life more than doubled from about 40 minutes to 95 > minutes. So, now I'm wondering if there are other things I can do to improve > this further. > > Any suggestions would be gratefully received. > > In particular, I notice that I seem to have one CPU mostly running full speed > (1.6Ghz) while the other core is scaling. Can I "encourage" the system to run > both cores at lower speed? (Can I perhaps shut one down altogether, and if so > is that sensible?) Anything else that I've not thought of?
A popular tool that I have used in the past, is powertop. It is a tool released by Intel that looks at running processes and offers suggestions for where to cut back on unnecessary services in order to boost battery life. -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
