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Re: sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6



On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After approximately 18 hours of sleep under linux, my powerbook has lost
> almost 25% of its battery charge.
> 
> That seems to be too high. (Ben: Yes, with the marvell phy suspend
> patch :) )
> 
> Does anyone have values for OSX, or could generate some by just letting
> the system sleep for a night and then checking how much battery it used
> for X hours?

Since battery capacity decreases with time, it is
more intersting to know the absolute amount of 
charge lost (it's in /proc/pmu I believe).

A new one is about 5400 total capacity on a 17" PB.
After 100 to 200 cycles it might be halved, depending
somehow on how deep you discharge it (Li-Ion batteries
dislike deep discharges).

	Gabriel



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