Re: Battery Life
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:28:25PM -0700, Derek Gladding wrote:
> (replying to this on-list)
>
> On Monday 24 June 2002 12:38 am, Joris wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:21:32PM -0700, Derek Gladding wrote:
> > > On Friday 21 June 2002 07:47 pm, Andrew Biggadike wrote:
> > > > I'm running Woody on a Dell Latitude C800 and yesterday I noticed
> > > > that the battery life of my laptop ran out much quicker than it
> > > > does when it is booted into Windows. (Approx. 50 min compared to
> > > > 2.5 hrs.)
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody know of any reasons that may cause this, or
> > > > potential solutions? Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Andrew
> > > >
> > > > (If you need more system info just let me know)
> > >
> > > Have you got your kernel compiled to "make CPU Idle calls when Idle
> > > ?"
> > >
> > > Are you running a journalling FS (ext3 etc) which will stop your HD
> > > from ever spinning down ?
> > >
> > > Those are the two biggest things (in my experience) which affect
> > > battery life.
> >
> > I assume that the former is a Good Thing (tm) and the later is an
> > energy waster?
>
> Yes, very much so. I was amazed at how much different the CPU Idle calls
> made to battery life - not only does the CPU not draw as much power, but
> the reduced heat means the fan doesn't need to kick in as often.
I still have an undeterminated overheating/overcooling problem...
It's somehow related to linux however, win98 keeps everything cool.
And I don't know where to start to debug :/ (the fan sometimes keeps
spining, well below the normal "cool enough" temperature, or sometimes
overheats, untill system halt and I cool manually (don't ask)
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Joris
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